Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could not remember ever hearing of a Diane Weggeland. "I can't believe it," he said. "This boy is not my son. My boy wouldn't do such a thing." He flew to Dubuque, where Fred was in jail, listened in astounded horror to the chilling tale the boy -speaking as politely as ever-had told the police...
Author Eyster ends his book well before V-J day, sends the Dreher to the bottom with nearly all hands, as the U.S. fights its way back to the Philippines. As a tale of a destroyer. Far from the Customary Skies is miles behind Marcus Goodrich's small masterpiece Delilah. As a quasipoetic documentary of arms and the sea, it pins a few surplus decorations on nature's biggest masterpiece, the Pacific Ocean...
Typically, Ros used this information not to change her talkative ways but to dragoon her two friends into helping her write a wordy, autobiographical play called The Winter's Tale. Its heroine's misadventures were strikingly like those that afflict Ros in Wonderful Town when she sings "One Hundred Easy Ways to Lose...
...Angels is one more comedy that tickles conventional morality with a straw and makes respectability turn out its pockets. But it is much less ironic or satiric than just gloriously improbable; it is a fairy tale in which people commit murder as though it were Drop the Handkerchief...
...edification of Communist Poland's literary set, Warsaw's daily Express Wieczorny published its own list of bestsellers in the U.S. book trade. No. 1: Ernest Hemingway's saga of a fisherman and a marlin, The Old Man and the Sea-"A tale of rampant sexualism." No. 2: Whittaker Chambers' Witness-"Memoirs of a former FBI agent...