Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fouler than Widener were endured by these youthful idealists, and hunger strikes were their only means of getting out of jail. The Vagabond was not feeling the pangs of hunger. That would not come for hours, when he could lay off for supper. On he must read through the tale of other peoples' struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave...
Good Story. The press of the world had last week a fine tale of the events which led up to Austria's revamping along German lines. According to the tale, Benito Mussolini who twelve years ago accepted the role of protector of Austrian independence, called Vienna by telephone and told Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg that all was at an end between them, Austria must throw herself on Adolf Hitler's mercy. So Schuschnigg crossed the border, to Bavaria, and at the Fuhrer's mountain chalet was shown into a room where he was left alone to read...
...other Wanderer still at loose in Germany could last week have learned some tricks from an engrossing tale* told by Englishman Oscar Millard, onetime London correspondent in Belgium now in Hollywood doing a movie version. He heard it from Paul Jourdain, whose father Victor was pre-War publisher of Le Patriote and Wartime publisher of La Libre Belgique (Free Belgium). The German occupants in Brussels silenced all other patriotic Belgian papers but in spite of all efforts Free Belgium defied the Germans to the very day of the Armistice, then carried on to become the fourth largest modern Belgian daily...
Echoed and re-echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter...
...Paradise For Three," the second feature, is yet another tale of an old millionaire running away from his well-ordered household. Frank Morgan does an excellent job of running away but he and the audience find it pretty dull, enlivened now and again by the lines and antics of Robert Young and Edna May Oliver. The photography is surprisingly poor...