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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shorten a long tale, the chauffeur was arrested, confessed that he had forged Prince Stirby's signature, vowed that he had smuggled the $36,000 to confederates outside Rumania, Among the many bitter -enemies of Prince Barbu Stirby the charge was heard, last week, that he was probably his chauffeur's confederate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Stupid Bank | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...take another author's (Louis Hemon's) locale and into it blend a tale of similar genre is a literary tour de force which James Oliver Curwood accomplished not long before his death (TIME, Aug. 22, 1927). It is written simply, directly, with just enough characterization and scene to suggest verity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peribonka Country | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...which this unusual departure occurred for fear that the fact that the vagabond secured a satisfactory grade for his three hour participation might unduly swell the rolls next year. But shrouded in silence as the details of this outbreak of Romanticism must be, brightly shines the moral of the tale; even in the twentieth century a vagabond may be King...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vagabond King Makes Debut in Striking Exposure of Exam Mechanism--Passing Grade Rewards Three Hour Session | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

Expected were revelations that Mokattam had been taken in by a fiction tale published in a Palestine weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Solomon's Favorite Wife | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...interesting tale, even though the race for the King's cup turned out to be, for the larger schooners at any rate, merely a protracted cruise in pleasant weather. Charts, the ship's log complete, diagrams, lists of provisions, in fact every aspect of the race is related, with one notable exception...

Author: By G. P., | Title: BOOKENDS | 1/22/1929 | See Source »

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