Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having a passionate affair with the U. S. wife of a Mexican general, is fatally gored in time to prevent a worse tragedy. A colorful, realistic, badly constructed tale, Mars in the House of Death will add more to Ingram's reputation for versatility than to literature...
Hoping that, in spite of all, TIME will live to tell another tale...
...home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more recently the U. S. aircraft industry (see p. 63) and the Government. Last week it provided a good cue to the new state of U. S. business-a state which two months ago would have sounded like a fairy tale...
...virtues of this fairly improbable tale is its suggestion of the beauty of southern Germany and Austria, at a time when these have become areas on a map which is often thoroughly and pointedly blacked. "Ethel Vance" knows her mountains and her Maximilianplatz. In the characters of the Countess and the General she has provided, furthermore, symbols of the old Germany accommodating itself with desperation to the new. In Dr. Ditten's stiff, selfless intellectuality the philosophy of the totalitarian State gets its most precise expression. But the conflict in the mind of this authentic, unhappy young German...
Enrolling as a provisional sophomore, Anthony Williams, an English student who studied at Cambridge last year, has a strange tale to tell. Among other things, he is a sergeant-major in His Majesty's army reserve. When he reported to the British consul in order to return to England to join his regiment, he was told that he was not wanted, so he decided to come to Harvard and study for a while...