Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago Symphony and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Said Philippa: "I was in Mexico on a vacation trip with Mother, and I was so homesick for New York that I wrote it to express what I felt." The second-prize Rumpelstiltskin is from Philippa's almost-completed Fairy Tale Symphony...
Last week Pastor Perkins had won new fame. His second novel, Antioch Actress, a chiaroscuro tale of early Christian heroism v. degenerate Roman paganism, was made the April choice of the Religious Book Club...
Like interdicted England in Mark Twain's tale of the Yankee and King Arthur, Bali was hushed and lifeless. In the village market, bulging a few days before with fruits, vegetables and poultry, counters were bare. Colonel ter Meulen could secure no servants for his headquarters. A dance was scheduled for a U.S. visitor in a village temple; no natives came. Nationalist agitators who had hopped over from Java had not succeeded in converting the Balinese into fire-eating revolutionaries. But fear of the Pemoeda (Javanese extremist Youth Movement) kept the peaceable Balinese from cooperating with the white...
True or not, the tale Nass River Indians had to tell, half a century ago, was enough to parch the lips of any prospectors. This is what they said: not far from their hunting & fishing grounds at Observatory Inlet, 500 miles north of Vancouver, was a "mountain of gold." Two prospectors, led there by Indians, found only "fool's gold" (iron Pyrites) which gives a surface appearance of precious metal. Yet there was indeed a fortune in the district. It took some 18 years of exploration and drilling-and investment of more than $3,600,000-to find...
Gibbering Unknowns. At first, Susan and Slick "smiled at each other but without warmth, rather as though they had just bumped into each other on a sidewalk." But there was no escape. So for the first time ever, Susan told somebody her life story. It was quite a tale. Her mother, she told Slick, had first drunk herself into a stupor with crème de cacao and curaçao, then ran away with a traveling salesman. Thereupon her father began to lose his wits, finally cut his throat with a razor. Her grandfather was popped into a sanatorium...