Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Record has provided Kay's own simple story told in her own simple way; and it is hard to see how even the most hardened can help but feel a slight tugging at the heartstrings, can restrain a large, hot tear from forming in each eye as this simple tale of woe unfolds itself...
...from the little Press table in the court room, from innumerable policemen, lawyers, court attendants, judges of his acquaintance. He makes copious notes, descends to his dungeon desk and telephones his office. Far downtown near Park Row one of four lightning-fast rewrite men takes Reporter Corrigan's tale, whips it into a precise, minutely detailed, colorless but accurate story. Page by page it is teletyped to the newspaper offices where again it is rewritten, whooped up, whittled down or thrown on the floor...
...Townsend Copeland '32, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oxatory, Emeritus, and by Fred Norris Robinson '91, Professor of English. These records are now on sale, and include readings from chapters six and seven at the "Book of Revelation," by Professor Copeland, and part of Chaucer's. The denner's Tale" and "The Debate of the Body and the Soul" by Professor Robinson...
...home he kept his hat down over his eyes and his coat collar up so nobody would recognize him, prematurely set up a hue-and-cry for the kidnappers who had held him 22 days. Safe in his father's home he told a piteous tale of beatings, confinement and fright, then collapsed sobbing...
...POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE- James M. Cain-Knopf ($2). Like the Ancient Mariner, who held his unwilling listener by the power of his glittering eye, the awful compulsion of his tale, Author Cain's high-powered shocker will keep many a reader spellbound. The Postman Always Rings Twice, though it gives the impression of a stark naked love-&-murder story, is actually narrative stripped to its underwear. Author Cain's hero is as hard as any cinema villain but he obeys cinema rules, goes sappy...