Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Criminal Code. Martin Flavin is both lawyer and playwright. (Children of the Moon). Perhaps by intention he has shaped his new drama in 13 scenes, for it is the tale of a luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of man. A lonely newcomer in the city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal...
Repertory--"The Winter's Tale...
Reportory--"The Winter's Tale". Reviewed in this issue...
...been slain as planned. But from the new Bible is missing the whole chapter that describes the unhappy King's brief interlude of passion with Bathsheba that lush spring when he tarried in Jerusalem although it was "the time when Kings go forth to battle." Without this tale is lost one of the most important psychological links in the evolution of David from the young idealist who befriended Jonathan into the almost fanatical writer of the imprecatory psalms -all of which are omitted. Question: Is it well to let the child think of David as always good...
...months has fled from village to village the tale of a terror-the massacre of Moslems-30,000, 40,000, 50,000. Facts appear as follows...