Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that H. R. H. is the member of the Italian Royal Family most estranged from Dictator Mussolini. Most antiFascists regard the Crown Prince's name as the best one around which to rally a revolution which should "deliver" Italy, yet preserve the Throne. Commonly in antiFascist circles the tale is told that H. R. H. once sent II Duce a challenge to duel...
According to a Court functionary, His Majesty ignored everything but the fairy tales, pounced on the big book, retreated to an armchair, buried his nose. Soon, perhaps, Boy-King Mihai was reading the story of Dwarf-King Gleamlet, getting ideas about Kingship from the tale of how Royal Gleamlet dealt with Whisk, the field rat, who had stolen his grain...
...current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown from his wide participation in college affairs. Winning a Rhodes scholarship, he went abroad, suffered another breakdown. "Out of his experience has come the conviction that college athletics used him rather shabbily. . . . His picture tends to show conclusively that a football player has no time or thought to give to anything...
...restless rover has any objections to football in itself. Far from it. It is the inbetween that is so upsetting. Along with the turbulent conditions of the stock market these tussels with blue books have succeeded in demoralizing a fondly conceived plan of the Vagabond's. Whereby hangs a tale...
...those unfamiliar with the college scene, yet for those who have followed the evolution of intercollegiate football into the realm of big business, its findings are far from being startling. The yard-stick of evaluation when applied to the sport from a national aspect measures out a sickening tale, as the fact that a "pure" rating was given only twenty-eight colleges out of a possible one hundred and twelve attests. That this was stressed at the expense of a more vivid picturization of sectional and local conditions, however, enhances the possibility of creating a distorted cycloramic concept...