Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Highest place in the world is the summit of Mt. Everest, 29,140 ft. above sea level. If any man has set foot on that white pinnacle of the Himalayas none has returned to tell the tale. Up to last week 13 persons were known to have perished in 13 years of trying. Last week the world heard of a 14th victim when three Indian porters arrived in Darjeeling with the story of one man's lone assault...
...choose between meat for dinner and postage stamps for the sales letters. She always chose stamps. That year and the next S. S. McClure sold stories by Kipling, Stevenson, Conan Doyle, etc., to a dozen papers. The newspaper syndicate business in the U. S. was started. Teller of the tale in last week's Editor &Publisher: S. S. McClure...
KING COBRA&151;Mark Channing&151;Lippincott ($2). No detective story, but a bold adventure of the Indian Secret Service is this tale of a secret castle, tribal uprising and malevolent villain with temper of tried and true romance...
...fathers and a godfather were concerned. Thereby hung a tale, unrevealed until last week, of how a handsome apology enabled great concord to grow out of the furious spat in Geneva last May between glacial, correct British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and humorous, mercurial French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. Knowing nothing of Sir John's deep sorrow at his childless second marriage,* M. Barthou lapsed accidentally into offering a deadly insult to Sir John. The issue was a plan not devised by the Briton but to which he had given approval. "It seems, Sir John," flashed M. Barthou, "that...
...Pulitzers sold the New York World, Post and Gatty flew around the world, the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped, Herbert Hoover was defeated, Calvin Coolidge died while the radio blackamoors recited their ponderous and diverse tale. It took a whole year for Andy to realize the iniquity of Madame Queen, who punctuated their alliance with a breach of promise suit in 1931. The luckless love affair of Amos and Ruby Taylor, begun in 1928, has not yet reached a conclusion. For six years the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. has puttered in and out of the story. In all. 166 characters have...