Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girls On Probation" definitely does not live up to its advertisements, which depict a girl of decidedly sensuous cast smoking a cigarette in the approved seductive manner. It is a routine tale of woe, in which the heroine is framed by endless coincidences...
This week, when she publishes Black Is My Truelove's Hair, it is plain that Author Roberts has escaped from her blind alley in brilliant fashion. Her new novel reads like a folk tale of the Kentucky countryside, depends on no archaic trappings or high-flown language for its effect, takes place in a recognizable world of village gossip, youthful lovemaking, Kentucky feuds, with characters who are farmers, truck drivers, wise widows and runaway girls. The telephone and radio have reached Miss Roberts' countryside but the people have not changed much: they are superstitious, religious, poetic, great musicians...
...elevator boy, a croupier, a soldier, a jewel thief, a card sharp. Women came and went: the countess in the hotel at Monte Carlo, a beautiful blonde burglar, the wife who won consistently at roulette until he married her, then lost just as steadily. (During the course of his tale, an old lady enters the café and sits next to the frowzy storyteller. He recognizes her for the Monte Carlo countess, but tries to prevent her from recognizing him.) From cardsharping, he continues, he made the sorry error of turning to mere gambling and lost his hard-won savings...
...radio, usually steer clear of them-no difficult matter, since hurricanes travel across open sea at no more than 15 m.p.h.* Richard Hughes, author of A High Wind in Jamaica (originally published in the U.S. as The Innocent Voyage}, a perversely humorous best-seller of 1929, contrives the tale of a British tramp steamer which avoided one hurricane and ran smack into its undetected twin. Having thus ingeniously outwitted the meteorologists, he challenges Conrad with a tale that for excitement (and, at times, for skill) matches Typhoon. The Archimedes, a trim, 9,000-ton oil-burning freighter, westbound from...
...Missouri; and although the Civil War figures in her adolescence, the only valid purpose in these tedious chapters is to let the heroine reach a marriageable age before she goes West. When she marries an ambitious farmer and goes to the San Joaquin Valley to settle down, the tale begins to move...