Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaped into her mouth, and when he had passed into her chest (this is the legend's anatomy, not mine) he bethought him of his knife. With it, he made a gash in the monster's side which killed her. " 'Twas a wonderful slaughter," says the tale, putting the statement, for modesty's sake, in parentheses...
...question is this: The Fenian Cycle, of which this tale is a part, is hundreds of years old. It is thought to have originated sometime around the 3d or 4th Century. Various versions of the tales were transmitted to manuscript from the 9th to the 11th Centuries, or even later. The particular manuscript from which this translation was made (by Dr. Gerard Murphy, of Dublin) is dated about 1627. In your opinion is the discrepancy in the size and ambition of lake monsters which comparison makes evident, the result of degeneration brought about by time (small t) or does...
...California-"Author: Lieutenant George W. Campbell, U. S. N. Subject: the breaking-up and loss of the Navy dirigible Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined detail of the Macon's last flight, from the rising siren to the final, gentle crash on the surface of the sea and the pyre of gasoline flames...
...follows the book very closely; there is a longer introduction before you actually get out on the water, for it takes Hollywood longer than it took Kipling to create the character of rich, spoiled Harvey; but from then on it is all Kipling and the characters portray the gripping tale with the greatest acting you are likely to see on the screen this year--Harvey, Manuel, Captain Disko (Lionel Barrymore), Long Jack. Perhaps the only sour note is the millionaire, Harvey's soupy father, played by Melvyn Douglas; it is doubtful if he is just what Kipling meant...
DEATH WITHOUT BATTLE - Ludwig Renn - Dodd, Mead ($2). Cinematic story, lent a Grimm's fairy-tale touch by primer characterizations and writing, of Communists and disillusioned Storm Troopers in Hitler Germany; by the author of War and After...