Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Results of Manager Sherrill's four and a half year administration appropriately climax the tale of how a group of decent energetic citizens rescued their town. The city paid 22% less for its street building materials in 1926 than it had in 1925. Dirt which had cost $1.35 a yd. in 1925, cost 35? a yd, a year later. In 1926 Cincinnati paid $36,000 less for street maintenance than it had the year before "when it rode on holes." "Where," asks Author Taft, "had the money gone?" Whereas in 1925 a citizen with a 50 ft. frontage...
...Anatole France, but which a few U. S. contemporary writers have been able to show will look well on anybody, Author Hillel Bernstein hoists France with its own petard. In quiet but telling accents that should bring tears of joy to many a Yankee eye he tells a burlesque tale that is at the same time an uproariously effective caricature of French politics, French traits. Henry Jones, solemn U. S. citizen temporarily resident in Paris while writing a cookbook designed to glorify French cuisine, is accused by a Frenchwoman of having walked off from a restaurant with her husband...
...Bible Belt, what has become of the Insuil interests? Greece, all Greece, and only a sordid tale of a mistress who turns out to be somebody else's maid of Athens. Nor has the West Coast, the Gold Coast, forgotten to keep up its reputation. Hervey L. Clarke of General Theatres Equipment, and William L. Fox of Fox Films, managed to pull faster ones in the financial world than they would ever have dreamed of trying to foist off on their patrons in the name of melodrama. So the role of honor might be extended indefinitely. Those on it perfected...
...Maybelline, an absolutely harmless, non-smarting eyelash darkener that contains no dye or aniline derivative, we have suffered untold damage to our old established business by the ambiguous publicity given out concerning the Tugwell bill. In a recent issue of the Paramount Newsreel, Professor Tugwell told a truly appalling tale of injuries caused by a poisonous preparation, but neglected to give its name as "Lash-Lure" or to state that it was a dye, merely calling it an eyelash "beautifier," and concluding his speech with the dreadful remark, "This is the kind of stuff you women use on your eyelashes...
...theater, the world of sport, and of the great middle classes of England. She is quite capable of entering into sympathetic regard for the particular individuals she portrays, and she has an excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book is not a merry tale for light, inattentive perusal around the Christmas tree or fire place, but is a highly stimulating, thought-provoking lesson in life because it sets down so objectively, almost without any comment whatsoever, the essential realities of people with whose problems, large and small, we should never have become acquainted...