Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a name for himself in private life. Several of the Poles are high in Polish aviation circles. Author Murray is the only one who still flies commercially. A transport pilot (unemployed), he once went treasure-hunting by air in Yucatan. Though he has written many a tale for pulp magazines, his story of the Kosciuszko Squadron is his first book. Lean, bronzed, reserved, Author-Pilot Murray is married, has one child, lives in Tuckahoe...
...made respectable by excisions of many descriptive passages and Anglo-Saxon words, has also become suggestive and otherwise pointless. From a glorification of proper love-making and a sermon against sexual wrongs. Lady Chatterley's Lover (Lawrence once thought of calling it Tenderness} has become merely an ordinary adulterous tale. The plot of the original and the bowdlerized version is the same...
Mother of five, grandmother of three, Editrix Roosevelt editorially led off thus: "With this issue we make our bow to the public. Babies! Can you think of anything more wonderful?" She told a tale on Assistant Editrix Dall: "I will always remember when my first-born wept bitterly all of one evening just as some guests were assembling for dinner. I stood it as long as I could, then I went to the telephone and asked a specialist wrhat might be the matter with the baby. He suggested that I turn her over my knee with her little feet...
Sons takes up the tale where The Good Earth dropped it, at Wang Lung's death. His three sons, Wang the Landlord, Wang the Merchant, Wang the Soldier, divide the property. Wang the Soldier, who likes to be called Wang the Tiger, takes his in cash. He has a scheme to revolt against his aging general, lead the best of his troops to another province and set up as a war lord for himself. His scheme succeeds, and when he delivers his chosen province from the tyranny of The Hawk, brigand in residence there, he finds his career ready...
...revolutionaries, young Rubens caught fire from Marti's fervor, swore he would get in there and fight for Cuban independence. This book is the disarmingly partisan record of how Cuba finally got quit of Spain. His own place in the epic Author Rubens keeps modestly choral: heroes of his tale are Poet Marti, Mulatto General Antonio Macéo, white-bearded, spectacled Máximo Gomez, Cuba herself...