Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...people brought their dogs to be examined by the judges. It was for the judges, prodding the sparse flesh upon a terrier's bones or stroking the pursed silky ear of a beagle, to decide how each dog or bitch, rated upon arbitrary points such as length of tale, straightness of back, stance, shape of head, compared in excellence with other dogs of the same breed and class. To the one who surpassed his companions was given, not a good bone, but a blue ribbon...
...London, men of the city communed over a tale last week. They thought of it, in essence, as of a temperance milk shake poured upon a table-fountain sizzling with champagne. The spirit of the milk shake is a British Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. One of the two genii of the fountain is a fabulously shrewd and rich international night club man. The Knight of Grace is Chairman Frank Henry Cook of the Board of Thomas Cook & Son, Ltd., famed world-wide tourist agents. The genii control La Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits...
...Captain Cohn no one will ever write the true biography. Presumably untrue is the tale that he got his stake in life through pocketing by agreement 40% of all he could wheedle from the late eccentric Baron Michelham in the interest of the estranged Baroness, Aimee Geraldine, nee Bradshaw. Today Captain Cohn, a fat, unctuous personage with a great mane of blond hair, is to be seen, sleekly appareled and carrying a lady's parasol to shield his eyes, at every major race meeting in Europe. Frequently, very frequently, his horses win. His Sir Galahad distanced Epinard...
...defeated time and again by the subtler feints of a canny rival editor, a burly bartender, a cautious banker. His children, with the exception of the faithful Ruth, leave him stranded on his editorial high ground. The relentless climax of Marvin's failure gives dignity to a rather repetitious tale of puny struggles and mean treacheries...
...Poor Gentleman' is a breathless tale, with many a sudden twist and hair-raising moment. The Shrewd ways by which Captain Shere overcame his handicap, for example, that gruesome life-or-death fight in the dark, when the blind man meets him on even terms, and the manner in which he turned it often to advantage in his contest with his able, if treacherous, adversaries are thrilling incidents in a story that Major Beith has told in his finest...