Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...writers have been so infallible as Rosamond Lehmann. Dusty Answer (1927) might have been a lucky strike; A Note in Music showed it was not. In Invitation to the Waltz Authoress Lehmann, with sure and delicate touch, tells a tale of vernal English virginity. Olivia and Kate were sisters, both pretty, but different. Kate was neat, chic, determined; Olivia dowdy and diffuse. Both were beside themselves with breathless ambition at the prospect of Lady Spencer's dance-Olivia's first. Their hard-put-to-it mother had relaxed so far as to let them invite a young Oxonian...
...Edward Settle Godfrey Morison: Development of Harvard University Abraham Lincoln Gordon Life of Benvenuto Cellini Clement Lowell Harriss Carroll: Alice in Wonderland Isadore Herman Bunyan: Pilgrim's Progress Robert Kaplan Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield William Wallace Kirkpatrick Byron's Poems Paul Lachlan MacKendrick Pericles and Aspasia Joseph Neyer Swift: Tale of a Tub Philander Silas Ratzkoff Scott: Redgauntlet Johnathan Barlow Richards Carlyle: Miscellanies John Thomas Sapienza Robinson's Poems Richard Bulger Schlatter Hallam: History of England and the Middle Ages Edgar Lawrence Smith James: Charles W. Eliot John William Walsh Carvantes: Don Quixote Class of 1935 Caesari Lombardo Barber History...
...east and especially in Massachusetts. In the Democrats of Massachusetts, his name inspires implicit confidence and blind discipleship; where he leads they follow. Mr. Smith is conscious that any prolonged appeal for Governor Roosevelt would fall on half-interested cars; what Massachusetts Democrats want to hear is the tale of '28, the tale of Republican bigotry, and hypocrisy, the tale of their unswerving loyalty. To recall to their minds his moral ascendancy, Mr. Smith has small need of polished periods, of intricate logic, of strict party loyalty; his battle is personal, best won by informality, candor, sneers and jibes...
...historical romance with plenty of still untapped veins, is beginning to be reworked again. Taking as his subject the four tense months in Charleston that culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, Author Heyward has brought to light a whole shining age. Peter Ashley-a carefully unimpassioned but compelling tale that even Abolitionist-grandsired readers will be loath to leave-makes vivid and convincing a crucial scene in U. S. history...
When the militia was called out and the strikers were told to keep back. Red. in order to impress the girl, stepped forward and was shot. With this unfinal denouement the wandering tale wanders...