Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such at least was the story-not inconsistent with the methods of Japanese police -sent out last week over the wires of Tass, the official Soviet news agency. Tass backed up its torture tale by declaring that the Soviet Embassy in Tokyo has been ordered to protest the treatment given the captain and crew of Refrigerator No. 1. Since Russians and Japanese are still arguing over their bitter full-dress battle on the Manchukuoan border earlier this month, the affair of Refrigerator No. 1 did little to promote the amicable spirit needed for a settlement...
...light last week came a tale about Patient Roosevelt's stay in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester: Among those curious to see James Roosevelt was a young nurse who made bold to enter his room at 6 a. m. while his night nurse was out writing her report. Waking the patient, the youngster popped a thermometer into his mouth, gazed her fill, removed the thermometer, marched out. When Patient Roosevelt asked his doctor if he must be wakened so early, the young nurse was discovered, fired-but soon given a job in another hospital...
Nearly all prosecution witnesses insisted upon testifying for the defendant. Gist of their stories was that the colonel was a drinker, not a drunkard. At the close of the trial the court itself put Lieut. Smith on the stand and questioned him. His tale was that Colonel Giffin got him to resign, then reneged on a promise to back him in an automobile agency, left him to starve, refused to give him "more" money. Said Lieut. Smith: "If he had handed me a couple of bucks when I went to him for help and said, 'Here, you poor...
This 741-page historical melodrama about "a modern Monte Cristo" is an unusual tale. Most extraordinary thing about it is its echoes of Christina Stead's month-and-a-half-old House of All Nations (TIME, June 13). Both novels run to about the same length, both have the same satirical, tight-nerved, epigrammatic slant on their backgrounds of international high finance, war and revolution. The World Is Mine, with a more extravagant range, livelier plot, less diffuseness, is better than Author Stead's brilliant book...
Whether or not Author Blake's hero is an improvement on Dumas' Count of Monte Cristo, he cannot be called an imitation. Cristobal Hernando Pinzon, handsome, precocious hero of the tale, lives for a revenge that is all his own. At 21, on the eve of the World War, Cristobal is a director of a Jesuit bank, making a mere $50,000 a year. At War's end, his daring speculations have made him the richest man in the world. Meanwhile, he has helped rig a Papal election, has picked up two shady stooges and has narrowly...