Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strange tale of 14 men in a boat came out of the British-owned Bahamas last week. On the beach near Mayari, Cuba, startled fishermen looked up from their work to see a motor launch, propelled by a sail pieced out of dirty shirts and trousers, ground itself in the shallow-water. Out of the rudderless boat tumbled five Americans, nine British West Indian Negroes. Wolfing food and water, the first they had seen in four blistering clays, the tattered survivors gasped out a story of riot, rebellion on Great Inagua,* southernmost of the Bahamas, 50 miles from the Cuban...
...LOST KING-Rafael Sabatini- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). "The modern Dumas'" 26th riproaring tale gives adventure story readers their money's worth in 379 pages about Louis XVI's son, the "Lost Dauphin...
...They've got no right to use my misfortune to peddle soap," said Lawyer Irving S. Roth for Convict Durkin, eligible for parole in seven more months. Into court at Chicago marched Mr. Roth, seeking an injunction against the broadcast. Surprised, Benton & Bowles quickly dropped Durkin's tale, instead told one about a rich New Yorker named Shattuck who pursued a thieving butler across the ocean, caught him in France and had him sent to Devil's Island...
...amateur philosophers as well as men of action, who expound their beliefs, analyze themselves and the contemporary world in ringing phrases as they commit murder, double-cross each other, go down racked with disease, vice, unspeakable spiritual torment. Readers may question the allegorical significance of Author Prokosch's tale, may feel that his situations are too farfetched to be credible. But they are likely to admit that his people are real human beings, that his mountains are really cold, his deserts really hot enough to cause camels to go mad, to make stones look as though "they must burst...
Troy's tale is one of the oldest stories in the world. It has been questioned, sifted, dug into by historians and archeologists, reconstructed by poets. Two epics (the Iliad and Odyssey) and a low hill in Turkey, within sight of the Dardanelles, are all that scholars and poets have had to go on. Laura Riding's A Trojan Ending, not to be confused with such mere literary romances as John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy, probes the dusty pile of Homeric legend with the findings of modern scholarship, discovers...