Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fiercely partisan Southern Democrat, Martha Truman had a tart opinion on almost everything. Her friends fondly called her "the old rebel," and shamelessly embroidered a tale of how she had said she would sleep on the floor rather than occupy the White House bed that Yankee Abraham Lincoln had slept...
...Through Pampanga Province in the Philippines last week ran another tonsorial tale: to see who was king of the newly born babies, a bird and a snake had fought. The bird won, but the snake threatened to kill all babies with hair on their heads. The story traveled fast. In five towns Filipino mothers had their children's heads shaved. The barbers had never done such business...
...chivalry of General George S. Patton lived after him in a tale told by a German slave-laborer. The laborer, who said he had worked as a U.S. counter-intelligence agent after V-E day, claimed he had found Frau Martin Bormann, wife of Hitler's chief deputy, operating a kindergarten in the Austrian Tyrol in 1945. He also found that she was dying of cancer. The agent reported his discovery to Third Army HQ, was told General Patton's decision: "The woman should be allowed to die in peace." She did, a few months later, said...
...been done so often before, Mr. White places the blame for World War II on the harsh Versailles Treaty, the iniquitous French, and the inexorable movement of economic forces which forced Germany to accept Hitler. And the moral to the tale is that we must "permit a free and democratic Germany to emerge from the present chaos, in which this industrious and talented people may work and enjoy the fruits of their labors on an equal basis with other nations...