Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe those fortune tellers who predict a return to prosperity provided the Corridor be given back to Prussia! That is a tale for children. A new partition of Poland would be an evil deed...
...Parisian restaurant Duval, where for years he regularly sat at a certain table, a revolting old woman once took a seat opposite him. Said Man Bennett: "With that thing opposite to me my dinner will be spoilt!" But Artist Bennett got the idea for The Old Wives' Tale from that old woman. Reward for all his labors he sought and found in cash returns (reckoned up each year); reviews of his books (measured by inches); and the society of interesting people. After a party in London he writes: "This sort of thing is the real reward for having written...
When John Hughes Curtis began to tell his tale of mysterious boat trips and constant failures to bring Col. Lindbergh into contact with the men he said were in possession of the child, Col. Schwarzkopf lent a polite, attentive ear. Mr. Curtis described and gave the approximate position of the fishing smack on which he had supposedly interviewed the child's captors. The Coast Guard sent 39 craft and three amphibian planes to find it, with no success. His identification of the criminals by nicknames proved similarly untrustworthy. At last, early on the fifth morning after the child's body...
...away with 250 bosses (a figure perhaps exaggerated for the good of the tale), Mr. Avery has been trimming Montgomery Ward, grouping its functions. Henceforth there will be but four big bosses under him. First to be selected were Harry E. Hughes, vice president in charge of all operations, and David Thomas Webb, vice president in charge of merchandising. Still to be appointed is a vice president in charge of finance; Robert Guy Bear is acting in that capacity now. Last week Boss No. 3 was appointed. He was Walter Hoving, 34, executive vice president of R. H. Macy...
...first novel East Wind, West Wind (1929) passed comparatively unnoticed, Authoress Buck's second, The Good Earth, has taken the public's fancy to the tune of 22 printings, has recently been dramatized by Owen Davis & Son Donald, will be presented by the Theater Guild next autumn. A good tale, though of lesser scope, The Young Revolutionist, depicting Chinese idealism swing Christ-wards, will be many a missionary's meat. Mrs. Buck's Virginia parents, named Sydenstricker, were missionaries. She was born in China. Her husband heads Nanking University's farm management department. She well knows the importance of food...