Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was, however, only the beginning of the tale of Republican losses. In Wyoming Senator Robert D. Carey, bitterly outspoken critic of the New Deal, and a good campaigner, was beaten by Harry H. Schwartz, able legislator but poor campaigner who lost to him in 1930. In Iowa the victim was a stern New Deal hater, Lester Dickinson. In his place was elected mild, polished, praise-seeking Governor Clyde La Verne Herring, flower-lover and ex-Ford dealer. In Michigan, the seat of the late Senator Couzens, overwhelmingly defeated in the primaries by former Governor Wilber M. Brucker...
...automobile. The "differential" story of another young couple (Would You Marry A College Man? No.) begins with factory instructions on breaking in a new car, a theme whose smutty possibilities are as obvious as they are outworn. Some times Weller grinds his gears pretty badly in shifting from one tale to the next; sometimes the transitions are lightly made...
...When Nils refuses to change his mind. Andy drunkenly concocts a ruse by which he in duces Nils to believe that his good wife is a prostitute. Nils kills himself and his wife (off stage) and Andy loses his job and goes crazy. There are times when this flimsy tale comes to a dead stop and the workmen loll about on their crags ex changing rowdy talk and banter, much like the urchins of Dead End grown older and transported 63 floors up. "What's the purtiest thing in the world?" asks Andy...
...main story deals with Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter who settled near Jefferson, Miss, in 1833. Another tale deals with Quentin Compson, a Harvard freshman born and raised in Jefferson, who. in 1910, tried to figure out what had lain behind the Sutpen tragedy. A third deals with Rosa Coldfield, Sutpen's sister-in-law, and with Quentin's father, who told Quentin what they knew of the Sutpens. (Still a fourth story can be detected only by readers of The Sound and the Fury.) Thus readers must not only figure out what happened to the Sutpens...
Being the well-worn tale of the urchin and her none-too-scrupulous grandfather who soon lie on a bed of roses through the darling simile and bobbing curls of the little tot, "Dimples" differs from the previous parade of Temple screen monopolizations only in the Shirley has an opportunity for real acting in her portrayal of Little Eva's death in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Admirers of the wonder child will be pleased with the talent the youngster displays in this sequence, and those who are not so impressed will appreciate the able acting of Frank Morgan...