Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Snappiest, most widely printed anecdote of the year about Signore Benito Mussolini was the tale of how he was recently "enticed" to the U. S. Embassy for tea by Mrs. John Work Garrett, greeted by Ambassador Garrett carrying a loaded pistol to protect the Dictator's life...
...almost say exploding-at a terrific rate. The results of measuring the speeds of nebulae were sensational. The last to be investigated was found to be receding from us at a rate of 26,000,000 miles per hour. . . . The material universe appears to be passing away like a tale that is told. . . ." The voice continued to draw a picture of cosmic destruction. Although there are as many stars as raindrops falling on a wet London day, the universe now is almost empty. Our small earth is "like a ship on an empty ocean." "Leave only three wasps alive...
...first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1909). She is the only woman among the 18 "immortals" of the Swedish Academy. Reading one of Selma Lagerlof's books is like listening to the more-than-shrewd conversation of a wise old lady, realistic, worldly, understanding. The tale the old lady has to tell may seem a very homely narrative about very simple people, but before you have listened long you realize she is telling you about Life. Unless you are sure you know all about it, you would do well to listen...
...hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been hanged for murder and Sophocles for incest. Poetry is the spiritual enjoyment of what one understands. I wrote my tale of the Fox because I felt deeply the beauty and the life of hunting." Editor-Sportsman A. Henry Higginson, son of the late Tycoon Henry Lee Higginson (founder of Boston's famed Lee, Higginson & Co.) is a U. S. citizen and owns a large place in South Lincoln, Mass...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...