Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CRADLE SNATCHERS-A nasty tale of three young men and three older women, which has attained huge popularity...
...reconstruction of the tale of this magnificent interment was slowly accomplished last week by Howard Carter and colleagues in the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Luxor. After three years of laborious archeology, the diggers opened the royal coffin for the first time. Greatest secrecy attended the event, the pride-swollen, dog-in-the-manger Egyptian officials having exacted a stipulation that no news was to be telegraphed to the archeologically-minded world except the "official communiques" issued to the Egyptian press, which is glumly uninterested in the proceedings...
...urban and native tale of thirty-dollar-a-week people in Manhattan; and how they fought to improve themselves and failed...
...that the author, once a sheepherder, treats the protagonist as he treats the beasts in the story, as a dumb brute suffering without understanding. It is not a comedy, and unlike the Scandinavian treatment of such a theme it is not stark tragedy. It is simply a wild-animal tale, effectively told...
...active self-sufficient woman. The pangs of their readjustment strike deeply into the lives of two women with whom the wife has become closely associated, a saintly semimythical Princess and a courageous widow through whom the husband discovers how irrevocably he belongs to his wife. It is a sombre tale, told with great power and refinement and extraordinary grasp of the inward structure of the characters...