Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...office to discuss ways and means of solving what is to them an eternal problem, the question of financing their own college education. With the hope that the experience of one student may serve as an inspiration for others, these few notes are being written. I will tell the tale as it was told to me, for I know that every word is true. The individual whose history I am taking the liberty of writing was doubly handicapped in that he was very lame in both legs and hence was unable to do manual labor and thus cut off from...
...gallantry; and it is a proud thing to be paid for defending gallantry in a world that has forgotten it. As for putting stories together, he.can put one inside the other, so that the one within illumines that without like a candle shining through a curtain. Such is his tale about Capcl Maturin, the Ace of Cads, who shamed Sir Gray de Gramercy by taking a check for ?1000 that was owed him and refusing a girl that was not; and the bit about Miss Wycks who lived, just for one minute, "Where the Pigeons Go To Die." But sometimes...
...moral of this tale 'tis true...
...have consummated this expedition. Ahmed Hassanein was awarded the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. In this book, which is purged of science, he writes of long fatigues and desperate adventure like a University Fellow .discussing such fantasies over the afternoon crumpet, yet this reticence gives the tale an objective ambiguity, as if the type of all desert wanderers, the very ghost of the Golden Horde, rode with Hassanein's thin company along the last frontiers of nomadism. The volume is adorned with many excellent photographs, frontispieced with one of the author himself?no don, but a bold...
Morning, noon, night, midnight? the stream of cranks in and out of newspaper offices is in perpetual motion. Occasionally, one of them succeeds in having a young cub sent out to hear his tale...