Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shawcross added only one significant incident to the tale-how Fuchs had decided to stop being an open Communist and had gone underground. It was the morning after the Reichstag fire, in 1933, when the Nazis declared open season on Communists (whom they falsely accused of setting the fire). Fuchs read the story in a newspaper, riding on a train. "I took the hammer & sickle from the lapel of my coat where I had carried it," Shawcross quoted Fuchs as saying. "I was ready to accept the philosophy of the party as right in the coming struggle." The Chief Justice...
Moscow wrote a financial fairy tale. The Soviet Council of Ministers announced last week that the ruble, which had previously been fixed as worth about 19?, would henceforth be worth 25?. The new "exchange rate" was purely imaginary. Nobody ever gets a chance to exchange any rubles into foreign currency; if one did, on a free market, a ruble would be worth more nearly a nickel than a quarter...
Cinderella. Walt Disney's beguiling retelling of the fairy tale (TIME...
...although Lamkin's tale of an aristocratic family's decline in a back water Louisiana town seems to have been told before, the author's thorough understanding of his subject matter prevents his first novel from becoming merely an echo, hollow as the life of his virginal, bachelor story-teller, Henry Nelson...
Cinderella. Walt Disney's beguiling retelling of the fairy tale (TIME...