Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angriff version of Esther was labeled The Tale of a King and His Jewish Girl Friend. It told how King Ahasuerus of Persia was lured into marriage by the Jewess Esther, how she persuaded him to banish the Jew-baiting Vizier Haman, and thus saved the Persian Jews from massacre. Adding details not found in the original, Der Angriff related that the King was later murdered and his kingdom, "infected and poisoned by Jews," finally went to pieces...
After that, he said, they took illegal whales in the daytime, did not bring them aboard until they thought the snooping Coast Guarder had bunked in for the night. Melodramatic climax of his tale: when he caught them blubber-handed, they began to treat him as a social outcast, and he lived for months in increasing apprehension, among black looks and whispered threats...
...Jose, Guatemala, two of the crew jumped ship, got passage back to Los Angeles, where they were promptly arrested last week on a radioed complaint for "resisting the officers of an American vessel [mutiny]." Waiting the return of Captain Hoffman & Party, they told their side of the tale: while the Countess di Frasso and friends baited shark hooks on deck, the Captain was busy baiting Jews below...
Favorite guerrilla tale is that of 24 Chinese who, caught in Pingchüan when the Japanese entered the city, donned the blood-stained uniforms of dead Japanese, walked out of the city unmolested. This trick sometimes boomerangs. Recently 8th Route Army General Lin Piao, regarded as the ablest Chinese strategist now in the field, returned from a raid with 600 of his men who were dressed as Japanese, mounted on Japanese horses. Their own guerrillas ambushed them, wounded a number, including General Lin, before their identity was established...
Lewis and Clark were explorers who had a lot to do with the development of the western part of this country. Lewis Carroll has had an equally profound effect on imaginative fairy tale writing through his "Alice in Wonderland." To this latter Lewis has come a new Clark to make up what may become a second, a literary "Lewis and Clark," whose fairy tale explorations may be linked together just as naturally as the two early American pioneers. This new Clark is Harry Clark, a research associate in physics at Harvard. Last week Harry Clark's first children's story...