Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nation. But no Japanese had any particular reputation for heartlessness at sea until, arriving in Manhattan last week on the U. S. Liner American Banker, lanky, 28-year-old Swedish-born Captain Hans Milton and his crew of four from the Gloucester-built schooner Pioneer blurted out an angry tale...
...Girl from Wyoming (by J. van Ostend van Antwerp; produced by John & Jerrold Krimsky) is the creaking American Music Hall's annual horselaugh, garnished with beer & pretzels. The tale of "a Harvard graduate trapped by sex in the purple sage," The Girl from Wyoming provides an uncannily false picture of the West in the days of Diamond Dick saloons, half-breed beauties with roses between their teeth, and the Pony Express...
Interested bystanders, with whom the world is forever coming in contact, relate this latest tale of a Freshman's blunder--or was it a blunder...
...compass. Over this swung an indicator hand. A little tuning picked out the truck's signal, and the hand froze like a pointer on the bearing. Following this bearing, the plane chased over villages and farms, finally passed over Valley Stream Airport. As it did, the tell-tale needle swung full around, pointed backwards, spotted the truck parked behind a hangar...
...chunky Director Moholy-Nagy nor his backers, the supposedly well-heeled Association of Arts & Industries, would say anything except to their lawyers until last week. Then Moholy-Nagy sued the A.A.I. for $2,750 back salary, intimated sadly that he had been gulled. But the A.A.I. had a bitter tale to tell of Moholy's trying to "Hitlerize" the New Bauhaus, announced in some confusion that the school would re-open this week without him, then that it would re-open "soon...