Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expatriated Juan Leguia's story of Peru was well introduced over his whiskey glass, but out of respect to wonderful little Peru and some of its blooded and true gentlemen (all of whom are proud of their Incan ancestors), you should have let it go as a drinking tale. Never could such a fanciful story help explain the many Latin American revolutions...
...Aughinbaugh proposed that the News print a daily anecdote from his long and adventurous career. Editor Patterson liked the idea, decided to try it. For a month the strip ran along with fairly typical reminiscences of a traveled medical man. Then, last week, it burst out with an extraordinary tale of how Burma's White Elephant was fed, during the rule of King Thebaw. Excerpts...
...vociferous exponent of it, he nevertheless is sufficiently human to smile upon the adage of not "letting one's studies interfere with one's education." An accomplished story-teller, he has an inexhaustible fund, featuring prominently the one about Mr. Lowell and the fire-door, a worthy tale, and one well worth the hearing...
...editors of The Harvard Advocate announced last night that a new and rather unusual issue of the magazine would appear on the news stands on Friday morning, April 27. The feature article, by John A. Strauss '36, is entitled "Community Menace," a long tale of adultery in the Middlewest. Strauss avoids all that is vulgar and repulsive in this theme, which, as a result, is a very sane treatment of sex conditions in that section of the country...
...developed in England, spread to Paris, where in the '30's a formidable number of illustrated books were produced. The interest was shared between new editions of famous literature and contemporary writings. Thus "Gil Blas," "Don Quixote," "Paul and Virginia," are exhibited with Goethe's "Werther," Nodier's fairy tale "Tresor des Feves," Reybaud's political satire "Jerome Paturot," all with blocks cut after designs by Johannot, and Gigoux and others...