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Word: tales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Better than almost anybody who worked with him, Producer David Selznick sensed that the first rule in retelling a legend is exactly the same as retelling a fairy tale to children-no essential part of the story must ever be changed. In the film, none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...Charles tells a high-romantic tale about Bernard's sister Lucy. Bernard: "Charles, you are a liar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Shaw v. Shaw | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...purport to measure an individual's intelligence, knowledge, character, personality, radicalism, musical tastes, artistic ability, tea-table form, inhibitions, morale. Last week one Oscar Krisen Buros, an associate professor of education at Rutgers University, emerged from a voyage of exploration in this jungle of tests. Harrowing was his tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Now, Oscar! | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

What Napoleon thought of this tale is not recorded. But he lugged it around for 20 years, took it with him into exile on Saint Helena...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Frustrated Novelist | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

KNOCK, MURDERER, KNOCK!-Harriet Rutland-Harrison-Hilton ($2). Plenty baffled are Local Inspector Palk and a mysterious amateur sleuth when three guests in an English hydropathic hotel have their heads skewered with a steel knitting needle. Neurotic, crossgrained, gossipy characters are the tale's specialty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in November | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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