Word: tales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...emotional cravings. In no sense obscene or pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such a theme it is artistically essential to develop an intimacy with the heroine's character, and in so doing the film has apparently insulted "good taste." Instead of the mechanical, stop-watch kisses of Hollywood pictures it allows its actors...
...George Santayana, 72, published his first novel (The Last Puritan-TIME, Feb. 3). Last week onetime Professor Alvin Johnson, 61, followed suit. But aside from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...
...Countries and in Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid rise. Biographer Thompson does not comment on the legend that attributes Elizabeth's first favors to the tale of the cloak and the mud-puddle. However it happened, he was soon generally considered the Queen's lover. According to Thompson, there was nothing in that, but he was certainly one of Elizabeth's favorites. He soon had enough capital to go, like Drake, into piracy on a large scale...
...question of Jack's ancestry, which is rather questionable, as Jack was found comfortably ensconced in a black leather bag in the cloak-room of the Victoria station. Lady Blacknell refuses to accept that as sufficient ancestry, Jack sets out to do something about it, and "thereby hangs a tale...
...more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to his Mars. But not to the microscopic eye of Biographer Marjorie Bowen* whose tale is enough to turn a true-blue Briton purple or green, set Nelson himself whirling on his Trafalgar column...