Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps every man who saw action in the War saw it a little differently. Certainly those who went, saw, and have lived to tell their tales, all have a slightly different tale to tell. But the more tales, the more details, the completer the picture...
...Hammer Murderess") in Honduras after her escape from jail, and induced her to return to face a life sentence. It was Lavine who wrung a confession from Herb Wilson ("Preacher Mail Bandit") of two mail holdups and killing of a mail guard. Lavine it was who discovered the tell-tale bloodstains that led to the arrest of William Edward Hickman for the butchery of Marion Parker...
Apparently the hoaxing Southern hostess, still alive, had threatened a libel suit unless the story about her was eliminated, together with some uncomplimentary hearsay evidence on her social resourcefulness with which Mr. Wister embroidered his tale. Counsel for Macmillan advised the firm it would be less expensive to recall and revise than to face a libel action...
...TIME, usually accurate, gullibly repeats the tosh about Jehovah and the Continental Congress. Shall we look forward to the cherry tree tale next Washington's birthday...
...this, one of the first of the new $1 books, Racketeer William Tatem Tilden, onetime world's tennis champion, still up among the first and still the dread of the Davis Cup Committee,* has written a novel. Appropriately, it is a tale of tennis, its hero, at least in tennis ability, much like the author...