Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hebner. Authorities began to look for his wife, presently found her in Dade County, Fla. living with a man named Grover. Invited to return to Pocahontas to shed some light on the matter, Mrs. Hebner did so. Last week the coroner's jury to whom she told her tale, scarcely knew whether to be more bewildered by it as a denial of murder, or as a confession of more escapades than they had dreamed existed...
...week blond, lumbering Prokofieff, guest-conducting the Boston Symphony, evened the score. "If the public in Boston cannot understand my serious music," said irate Composer Prokofieff, "I'm going to give them simple things." One of the simple things was his Peter and the Wolf, a musical fairy tale written to teach the various sounds of the orchestral instruments...
...book is by Nathaniel Benchley, '38, Benjamin Welles, '38, and John Graham, '38. They have pieced together a tale of international intrigue including everyone from Mussolini to Princess Elizabeth. The plot concerns a group of American business men, who, tired of being mere economic royalists, decide to go in for the more traditional form of monarchy, and set up the Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome...
...Embarrassing situation number 9863," summed up the victim of this tale...
Concluding this tale, Negro Downs told of "the deep passion of hatred and despair which involuntarily boiled within me," described how he conquered it and subsequently addressed the Council on "What We Expect of Our Church" without once referring to his experience...