Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soul, and although he lost the sight of his right eye and was laid up for several months, in two years he was the principle attraction in a side show that toured the country. He even carried the crowbar along with him to prove the authenticity of his curious tale...
...most articulate and acidulous opponents of a separate U.S. Air Force is Rear Admiral Harry Ervin Yarnell, U.S.N. (retired). Arguing his case in Collier's last week, Admiral Yarnell told a horrendous tale of manslaughter committed by the R.A.F. and the Italian Air Force (both independent) through ignorance of military and naval matters. Excerpts: > "Forty-eight hours before the Germans actually invaded Norway, R.A.F. scout planes saw transport ships churning through the North Sea. Only mildly interested in the phenomenon, they reported it through routine channels. . . . Had the pilots been wise in naval matters, wise enough to understand what...
...Playwright Coward, standing at the juncture of three yawning precipices, nimbly keeps his balance. He makes his preposterous menage seem entirely natural. He maintains so light a touch that Death, far from being morbid, seems as carefree as a debutante. He is so resourceful that nearly every time his tale gets winded, he brings up a change of horses and away it goes again-and only slightly downhill...
Into each of the 500-odd warplanes produced in the U.S. last week went many times as much magnesium as the total U.S. production of this soft, silvery metal in 1914. And thereby hangs a tale...
...trouble. They are three: Stanislas Rosing (Conrad Veidt), who snatches her from a circus, makes her a great dancer, marries her, dies; Roger Chevis (John Shepperd), who dies before he can marry her; and David Gibson (Dean Jagger), rich U.S. shipbuilder, who marries her but lives to tell the tale...