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Word: tales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Throughout the week it was reported that Mile. Fuller and her ballet will perform in the chief cities to be visited by Her Majesty who will allegedly attend some 30 times the ballet's performance of her fairy tale, The Lily of Life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royalty Rambles | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...obtained will go to a somewhat nebulous U. S. charity, the Mothers' Memorial Foundation. The remaining 50% will go to the ballet of Mile. Fuller, who originally attracted the notice and reputedly the friendship of Queen Marie by journeying to Rumania and producing there the Queen's several fairy tale dramas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Royalty Rambles | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...core of his poem, he took the story of "Der Arme Heinrich" a tale led by Hartmann von der Ane, a German nidnnesinger of the twelfth century. It the elaboration of this story says Longfellow. "I have tried to show. . ., among other things, that through the darkness and corruption of the Middle As ran a bright, deep stream of Faith, strong enough for all the exigencies of his and death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 10/28/1926 | See Source »

...chief offender who has tried to debauch the fair name of Florida seems to be the Associated Press. Insidiously, craftily--like Californian spies--it took advantage of the coma which was Florida's until she had dug herself out, and blatantly shrieked a tale of ruin. With foul intent the newspapers urged relief funds and salvage societies. But Florida refused to be quarantined. Life is still Olympian at Coral Gables. The Marx brothers can still sell lots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOM! BOOM! | 10/16/1926 | See Source »

...famous actor or director but he knows how other men have done so, shoddy rats and real geniuses alike. So Jack Jarnegan, the Hibernian superman of this story, becomes a great director and the cheap rats are drowned and smashed in torrents of abuse. It makes no polite fireside tale. The sex life of a Hibernian superman would be a thing of wonder even if he lived in Kamschatka. The Tully superman in Hollywood would stagger the Prophet. It is one of the coarsest stories since Rabelais but too terribly vivid, dramatic and shrewdly intense to be vulgar, save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unholy Hollywood | 10/4/1926 | See Source »

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