Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thrills' magazine, filled with the spiciest photos an stories you've ever seen. Modesty forbids my reading you a selection from the true story I Was a Bar Maid in Phoenix City, Alabama,' but for just fifty cents, one half a dollar, you can read not only this revealing tale of a young girl's downfall, but a large number of other stories, special articles an features...
They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both...
...many, a proctor had begun to suspect an examinee of resorting to a crib sheet, but wasn't sure enough to make an issue of it. Mr. Leonard took over masterfully by casually asking the suspect to move to another seat: in the process of moving the tell-tale slip of paper fell to the floor...
...time Paricutin has been erupting for a thousand years, it, too, may have collected its gaudy legends. Until the legends bloom, it will have only the true miracle-tale: the story of an Indian peasant who tilled his cornfield and one day grew a tall volcano...
...Green Years," today's offering, is A. J. Cronin's sentimental tale of the life of a Scottish boy who is hampered by poverty, a mean old grandfather, and a foolish old great-grandfather. Some splendid acting by Hume Cronyn and Charles Coburn help a lot, though no alchemist's miracle is achieved...