Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time of the Assassins, by Godfrey Blunden. A tale of two fanaticisms-SS and NKVD-in the Ukrainian city of Kharkov (TIME...
M.P.s leaned forward to hear the "radical" proposals that would haul Britain from the quicksands of near-bankruptcy. But they heard none. Instead, Butler dryly recited the twice-told tale of how the Tories have somewhat staunched the drain on gold and dollar reserves-a story of more austerity and cuts in imports, a slight boost in coal production, and an end to cheap credit. Now, continued Butler, Britain's $13 billion rearmament program, begun so bravely in early 1951 by the Socialists (with full Tory support), will assume under the Tories "a new pattern." Defense production would...
This florid tale has been given flamboyant direction with overemphasis on such familiar thriller props as jangling telephones and doorbells, blaring radios, sudden shrieks and cats yowling in the night. Gaunt, towering Jack Palance makes an unusual leading man for Joan, while Gloria Grahame gives a pungent performance as the scheming other woman. As for Joan, she suffers bravely and beautifully-in gowns by Sheila O'Brien, lingerie by Tula, furs by Al Teitelbaum, and hats...
...most pointed of all Chaucer's stories is The Pardoner's Tale-the story of the three young roisterers who went looking for Death. They seize an old man and mockingly demand that he tell them where Death can be found. He assures them that he has seen Death, that very day, down the road, under an oak tree. With drunken bravado, they march to the tree and find, to their amazed delight, a pile of gold florins. But the old man was right, too. Since the three decide they cannot haul their treasure home in daylight, they...
...Tale," Hir shoes were laced on hir legges hye;/ She was a prymerole, a pigges-nye, Coghill, aware that no modern woman would care to be compared to a pig's eye, freshens her up like this: High shoes she wore, and laced them to the top./ She was a daisy, () a lollipop...