Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tale of the selling of the Aliens into slavery was set forth last week in a Federal grand jury indictment charging one John D. Alford and one Webb Bellue with violation of the Peonage Act. Both black-slavers were in hiding...
...news of this bill last week was the more amazing because a month ago not a single political prophet saw a farm bill in this Congress's horoscope. What happened has in it a tale of political strategy all of which is not yet apparent...
...tale to this effect was telegraphed throughout the land. Next day, Representative Sinnott, of Oregon said the tale was correct except that Correspondent Brown had nothing to do with it. He, Sinnott, had managed the whole joke...
...were to choose the two most sensational bits of prose published in 1926, one might well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame...
...literature?which he takes for granted?the Thames wanderings of Younger Brother Morley are as rich and heady as though the water were turned into brown old wine with the Wife of Bath's passing. An apparently genuine "treasure cipher," its decipherment and what ensued give to the tale an almost spirituous tang...