Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enacts the vigilante pursuit (in 1936) and murder of a pair of Arkansas sharecroppers who wanted a trivial raise, the Ku-Klux flogging of Joseph Shoemaker and two companions (in 1935, on a road north of Tampa, Fla.) for almost defeating a Klansman in the city elections, the untidy tale of a company labor...
Last week a tale leaked from Germany through London which must have given the Wehrmacht a sardonic laugh. In their glittering Mercedés, two top-notch Gestapomen were found bullet-riddled far behind the battle line...
Contrary to a recent tale originating in high Council circles, a magazine devoted to student suggestions for world reconstruction has actually been published and is expected to continue regularly, backed by the Carnegie Peace Foundation...
...phone call providentially interrupted what threatened to be a lengthy and irrelevant tale. Bertie came back shaking his head. "Speaking of Jeeves," he said. "That was Jeeves himself. He just heard the news. Seemed to take it pretty hard. Y'know," said Bertie, in an awed, incredulous tone, "I believe the poor old blighter was squiffed...
This lengthy, maudlin attempt to tell a tale of frontier womanhood is tough on Pioneer Stanwyck. Most of the time she is a reminiscing crone of 109, whose makeup is much better than her performance. Elsewhere she is a prairie wife, a Sacramento boardinghouse keeper, a croupier in San Francisco's Crystal Palace, etc. Her most remarkable achievement is to win back her husband's money, livestock and other chattels from a gambler (Brain Donlevy), who is so stunned that he trails her like a whipped dog for eight years. Broadway (Universal) is tired...