Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan. Hundreds of Bergen County citizens rented their phones to bookies at $50 a week, opened their houses to furtive characters known as "sitters," who crouched near the receiver eight hours a day taking bets from the Big City across the Hudson. But after the Kefauver committee blabbed the tale to the world on television, New Jersey's Republican Attorney General Theodore Parsons went into prolonged spasms of surprise, horror and chagrin...
Plymouth Playhouse (Sun. 7:30 p.m., ABC). First of a two-part dramatization of A Tale of Two Cities...
...Manzoni is Italy's Hugo, Verga is its Flaubert, and its Zola too. Now the finest of Verga's novels, I Malavoglia, is introduced to U.S. readers as The House by the Medlar Tree. The Malavoglia are a family of boatmen. Verga's is the plain tale of their destruction by fate...
...manufacturer." Bennett set himself the task of 1,000 words a day, and through most of his 40 productive years, managed to maintain that rate. In 1907 he announced he would write a major novel of 200,000 words, on Aug. 30, 1908 noted: "Finished The Old Wives' Tale at 11:30 a.m. today. 200,000 words." The last entry in his journal, in the last full calendar year of his life, ends: "Total of words for the year...
Verbalist Bennett himself in 1929 gave a judgment on his own literary output with which few critics in 1953 would disagree : "I have written between 70 and 80 books. But also I have written only four: The Old Wives' Tale, The Card, Clay-hanger and Riceyman Steps. All the others are made a reproach...