Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire and an astonishingly capable troupe in a slender but scintillating tale of English country life...
CRADLE SNATCHERS-A rowdy tale of elderly women and three young men, exceptionally well played and preposterousy prosperous...
Late despatches added little to this tale of wanton slaughter. Only three other passengers were mentioned, all of whom escaped: Mr. Russell, a mining man from Pachura, and "the wife and child of C. H. Sharratt, Manager of the Guadalajara branch of the Bank of Montreal." President Calles at once ordered 4,000 Federal troops to pursue the bandits, or "revolutionaries," to a ranch known as " Quitupan" in the state of Jalisco, whither they had fled after escaping on the engine of the wrecked train...
...Close examination of Reporter Mencken's short story revealed traces of the cacophonous word-mongering that was later to become so characteristic of Publicist Mencken's literary style. Youth's Companion readers were obliged, in this tale of dentistry, to cope with jawbreakers such as "apocryphal," "masticators," "lagniappe" (gratu...
...simple tale, and simply told. But those who read it will remark it strange that Lampy glosses over in a line or two the question of his origin. Some will call it filial ingratitude that he not even mentions who his parents were. The matter always has been shrouded deep in mystery: no wonder Lampy hesitates to talk about first causes. Lampy's simple statement that a note somebody passed in classroom brought him forth, is even more at odds with nature than a virgin birth. Therefore, the CRIMSON, who remembers well the scandal incident to Lampy's birth...