Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This tale will hearten all Americans who love justice...
...current issue features a story called "Good Men Are Hard To Find," by James B. O'Connell, and for the most part it is an excellent story. Apparently suggested by some of the author's own experience, it tells its tale of an accidental shooting and resulting death in China during the war with a flare for smart phraseology, and only occasionally lapses into what an English A instructor might mark with one of his handy labels such as jargon or fine-writing. The rest of the stories range from pretty good to pretty bad, and point up the need...
...tale of woe about my sleepless night. Pray let TIME name in issues yet to come The poet who so deftly called the strokes Of Dali that they turned on Salvador...
...teacher with the funny accent last week told a Kansas City kindergarten class a favorite story she had brought from London, The Tale of a Turnip. In an "infants' school" in London, the teacher from Kansas City entertained her pupils with a U.S. nursery story about The Little Engine That Could...
Literal-minded cinemagoers need not be alarmed when fantasy creeps into the tale. Fantasy or not, this movie is twice as lifelike as most Hollywood whimsies which are offered with straight faces as slices of reality. "I wish," mourns Jimmy, "I'd never been born." He gets his wish-and the shock of his suddenly important life-by being shown exactly what his family, his friends and his town would be like if he had never existed...