Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rhys James' use of the Negro dialect is superb. His story has tang and originality. It is a merry tale in an unusual vein and never loses the feeling for childhood or its stormy fun. He returns us to a land we had long lost and so restores a hearty glow we had not felt for so very long a time...
...Bowery" is a tale of the lower castes of New York in the gay nineties. The cast gives a fair idea of the thing; since there is Jackle Cooper, there is sticky and unpleasant sentiment. Since Wallace Beery is present, there is heavy comedy; since George Raft is on the scene there is someone tough and light and virile. All these things, predicted from a reading of the east, come true. Nevertheless, the show is entertaining. Chuck Connors, a saloonkeeper, wallows about in a sea of beer and oaths, delivering beautiful blows to the jaws of his enemies...
That students from Chicago are acquiring new virtues in Cambridge, is well shown by the tale of the two young Harvard graduates from that great town who found themselves down to their last traveller's checque in Marblehead last summer. Walking along the less yachty reaches of the waterfront reaches despair they saw some fishermen unloading quintals of fresh cod from a smack, offering them at a very low price...
Chase bank officers, some of whom had borrowed money to buy stock at the top (and found difficulty in repaying it), listened in surprise at the tale of their onetime chief's profits. They listened grimly while he told how one of his family companies had been short 60,000 shares of bank stock at the Crash in October...
...that downward pat cost me a year's growth, since it shortened my neck. Men said that in moments of excitement the Admiral's love-pats had crippled many a woman; but they still flocked after him." At the missions along the road Juan heard many a tale of famed Father Ugarte, "whose habit it was to seize a wizard in each hand by their long hair, and knock their heads together until they begged humbly for baptism; declaring themselves long Christian by conviction, but kept from the Church by humility. Once baptized, he retained them so near...