Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contention that the girl: 1) could have had a baby under the extraordinary circumstances she described and 2) would scarcely have known what she was doing for 18 hours afterward. A murder trial jury of twelve men, however, could not quite believe the whole of Elizabeth's tale. If she had not intended to have her child die, why had she not prepared a layette of some sort? Largely for that neglect the jury found Elizabeth Smith guilty of manslaughter, liable to 15 years imprisonment...
...crack of dawn, pretty faces have to be slapped, bullets to fly, traitors to be betrayed, instruments of torture to be brandished, and never-say-die men to be put to the acid test. The looker-on is guaranteed his full share of anxious gulps by this simple, undiluted tale of thrills. The lofty, chiselled beauty of Madeleinie Carrol is a bit surpassed by the whirlwind nature of the plot, but the masculinity of Gary Cooper is brought to the fore, from the scene where he takes off his shirt, to that where he swims the murky river with...
Origin of last week's to-do was an article signed by Publisher Frank A. Tichenor which appeared in the October issue of his Aero Digest. In it this stern critic of the New Deal told two complicated, interwoven tales of intrigue. The substance of Tale...
Meantime Publisher Tichenor's Tale No. 2 was hardly touched by the press which presumably regarded it as too risky to print. This tale related that at the same time the other venture was going on, just prior to and after the cancelation of the airmail contracts, Elliott Roosevelt and Anthony Fokker had a scheme afoot, supposedly encouraged by the President, to form a great U. S. air transport combine, in which Elliott was to have received 5% of the stock for his efforts; that Herbert Reed went to Manhattan to discuss it with Basil O'Connor...
...hear the evidence in this astounding tale of big, illegal medicine business, a jury of seven men and five women last week settled down to what they expected would be a long, bitter trial. First witness for the prosecution was the amateur abortionist, Paul de Gaston. He swore to the truth of most of the prosecutor's charges...