Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the grain pits were still ringing with the tale of a trapped bull, they were startled by an echo from the past-the sound of a bear trapped five years ago and still clawing at the trap. In Chicago's U. S. District Court, President Edward Wellington Backus of Backus-Brooks Co. (lumber) of Minneapolis filed suit against President Gustavus Franklin Swift of Swift & Co.. Allen F. Moore (onetime Republican Congressman from Illinois), Herbert J. Blum (oldtime grain operator). His charge: that in 1928 he sold short 950,000 bushels of July corn, that they and others...
Joker. Not tragicomic, but like a pathetic and futile story by Morley Callaghan. was last week's tale of Alice Kenny Schiffer Diamond. She married Jack ("Legs") Diamond (a consumptive gunman who was destined to be gangland's clay pigeon before he died), in 1917 after he had deserted the Army...
...Profoundly the resurgent German does believe in the Fatherland's future and nothing helps him more than the Goebbels-Hitler method of explaining away all Germany's defeats and trials in terms of the Jew. True Germans were not defeated in the War, so runs the Nazi tale for grown-up children. They were betrayed by Jewish pacifists. Marx was a Jew! In the welter of German revolution the Jews fomented a German Republic essentially
...Occidental readers may be disappointed in the inconclusive end-"the story fades out like a Chinese landscape-roll. The Bridge of Dreams leads nowhere-breaks off like the tattered edge of a cloud." But there is no doubt, says Translator Waley. that Lady Murasaki wrote it like that: The Tale of Genji is finished...
Other volumes (in order) : The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers, The Lady of the Boat (TIME...