Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boone Caudill, Jim Deakins, Dick Summers, and Teal Eye are some of the flesh-and-blood characters in a new and savory tale of adventure in the West-A. B. Guthrie...
Rain postponed the baseball game twice before Tale could rack up a 7 to 8 opening victory at New Haven. The Varsity struck back in the second contest two days later, but went down to defeat in the playoffs at the role Grounds the following week...
...caught wisecracking with his mike open)-which TIME labeled a legend and said that Uncle Don had called a canard-popped up in print at least as long ago as December 1933. It first appeared in TIME Oct. 9, 1939 as a "persistent but apocryphal tale," and there's not a word of truth to the story...
Rife as it is with florid incident and outrageous coincidence, this yarn is hardly credible on a purely "realistic" basis. But it has about it a great deal of the strange and thrilling logic of a fairy tale, a poem or a dream. It is even an allegory though not a rigid...
...story and one poem rise perceptible above the level of the rest. "The Horse Lover," by Lee Ann McCaffrey, achieves suspense right up to the end in its tale of the fate of a high-spirited horse that has killed a man. Neither the style nor the Characterization is superlative, but the author's judgment preserves an overall effect that is convincing. The poem, "The Death of a Friend," by Judith Nelson, was chosen by Professors Matthiessen and Levin to be Radcliffe's entry in the Eastern College Poetry contest. It is a mature piece of expressive writing, and consequently...