Word: tales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wild, mysterious tale of India is this, sprinkled with the oriental wisdom of Tsiang Samdup...
Thus, with tragic swiftness, came the ending of the first chapter of the tale...
...late-but not too late for a still later fleeting consummation. Consuelo tells of another dazzling woman whose honor-and the physical well-being of whose illicit suitor-were saved by the opportune appearance of a cigar with a long, undisturbed ash. The Romance of Iris Poole is the tale of Red Antony and his brother Roger, of the revenge of Antony upon Roger, whom he hated even as he admired him. Michael Arlen (Dikran Kuyumjian, Armenian) is reported...
Comedienne. Somewhere in France this little portrait was first found. Presumably in some French theatre it amused the crowds that came to gaze. In importation all its glitter died away. It is the tale of an actress who became a grandmother and retired to Virginia. By the last act she is back at the stage door. Charlotte Walker was immoderately miscast in the part. Cyril Keightley did very little as head man. Alan Dale-"Sheer inadequacy and torture...
That is the earliest historical background for all the stories and canter about X. You meet the tale at every step. "X runs a race with Y. At the half mile mark X passes Y running at 7.5 miles an hour. By how much did X win?" It is always the same; and always the happy ending,--X wins, and Y loses. Occasionally Mrs X (X') is called upon for assistance, but she invariably backs her husband to the discomfiture of Y. Even Z somehow seems to be able to put a deal across while Y is left struggling with...