Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coming in to the final period, Harvard's superiority in reserve material began to tell the tale, when the wearying Princeton skaters failed to hold Austin on his brilliant dashes down the ice. Penalties also had much to do with the Tiger's defeat, three of the Crimson scores coming with Princeton skaters in the penalty...
...York State is to be made simon-pure by the morality-makers at Albany. Their latest effort, as all now know, is directed at literature. It is, say these Solons, to be protected from itself, and kept from doing harm. The situation in a nutshell reveals an odious tale of legislative tinkering. Books are to be mailed and backed and literature to be made a handmaid of the State Legislature, People will be led with spoonvictuals of Pollyanna strain. Authorship will amount to a disgraceful truckling to the prudes of a loud-voiced minority. The public press...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED. Tells the tale of an Italian-American in California who grows grapes and has prospered since Prohibition. He marries a young bride and touches trouble...
...tough tale of prizefighters in the home that, despite its lack of ART, is a prosperous entertainment...
...seekers after cultural novelties. Now at last has the brontosaurus come to life. He is abroad in his native state, awkward, menacing and gigantically saurian. He can be viewed by the restless seekers after stimulation. In short, he is in the cinema. The film (from Conan Doyle's tale) is unimportant in narrative. An English youth would like to marry. His girl tells him he must do big things. Eventually, they migrate to South America on the trail of prehistorics. Out come the brontosauri and Bull Montana as an ape man; the fun starts. Later, one of the beasts...