Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poor Daniel. It may be that he was not wanted, and that the end of the tale will be disclosed with mute clarity when a skeleton in a burlap bag is washed ashore on the coast of Connecticut. But when the grim remains, whitened by wind and rain, are laid gently to rest, they will have the sympathy and respect of every true sportsman. Daniel has been a noble beast, and, like all good dogs...
...bouncing bus; we preferred the pure nonsense. We wonder why "Fugitive Lovers" was not a propaganda film against buses; it would really have been amusing to see twenty-four passengers quite dead after a two hundred mile trip with only a burly driver left to tell the tale...
...person who will shy away from this book for fear that the life of one of the lesser known Harvard Presidents will be drudgery and a boring tale, may this review by a caveat. Here is an interesting story of an unusual life, and a tale of educational changes and problems which, in a time like the present, should not fail to interest anyone in a university community...
...quarrelsome house, took his evening paper out in the graveyard to read; the sweet Alice who was known as "the Roarer and Greeter," not because she was hospitable but because anything out-of-the-way made her roar and greet (howl and cry); the town villain's tale of Robbie Burns's entry into heaven...
BELLY FULLA STRAW-David Cornel Dejong-Knopf ($2.50). Earnest, heavy tale of the Americanization of a Dutch family...