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Word: tales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: A Nice Boy | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pacific War: Tin-Can Class | 4/6/1953 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Comic Spirit | 3/30/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Mar. 23, 1953 | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Literary Briefs | 3/2/1953 | See Source »

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