Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment of Jews in Germany. The dictator is alleged to have been the moving spirit behind a persecution incredible in its extent and bitterness, and those who have been most active in dispensing figures and anecdotes have also neglected no opportunity to point the moral of a well adorned tale. Those apocryphal Germans who hacked the hands from helpless little Belgians have been resurrected, and in their new incarnation seem for more terrifying because they are far more plausible. It is easier to believe that Hitler summarily dispossessed Lion Feuchtwanger than it was to picture the Kaiser as a rather...
Though he eschews Latin-rooted words, clings to Anglo-Saxonisms almost as tightly as William Morris did, Author Linklater manages to give his bare and lusty chronicle an authentic primitive manner without ever putting the reader to sleep. Though his tale is at times reminiscent of the over-factual Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, it lifts towards the end to a narrative as stripped and swift as a Viking long ship with the oars going all together...
With a volte face almost breathtaking in its completeness, Mr. Adam's contribution is succeeded by a short story from the ubiquitous pen of Earnest Hemingway entitled "Homage to Switzernot obtrusively so, and is refreshingly brutal. While actually containing nothing but a few sentences of conversation, loosely connected, the tale is singularly incisive and clear cut in the total effect. It comes in welcome contrast to the usual run of magazine effusions...
...quickly shed his indignation, and an accession of peace might come to the President. But the angry Mr. Curley has drawn the veil from the rusty joints of patronage, extremely disquieting to public confidence, exactly at the psychological moment. Before his next outburst, the mayor might profitably ponder the tale of the man who killed the goose, and learn what happened to the golden eggs...
With all indices of industrial production sharply down, carloadings fell to 477,000 on the last weekly report (March 4), 36,000 less than two weeks before, 256,000 less than two years ago, adding to the sad and still unfinished tale of railroad woes with the full force of the holiday yet to be felt...