Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like the others it is a skillful, dramatic allegory in which each character becomes an effective symbolic puppet. Like the others it deals with unpalatable human possibilities, but like most allegories it induces fairy-tale shivers instead of moral indignation...
Listen and attend, O Best Beloved, for this is the story of how the Red Book got its tale...
...fortnight of caterwauling nationalism, the German press screamed that the French were plotting economic annexation of the Saar. Bonn's Minister of Justice Thomas Dehler scoffed at French fears. German aggression, he said, was a "fairy tale"; German responsibility for the first World War had been no greater than France's. "Hitler," he shouted, "was a product of the Versailles treaty and of France's own despondency." To emphasize the Saar issue, the Bonn government called off a trade parley with the Quai d'Orsay...
Last week in Manhattan, after deliberating over the case for nine months, Justice Benjamin Schreiber of New York County's supreme court awarded the stock-and thus 40% control of the Bata empire-to Thomas Jr. and his mother. In doing so, he also unfolded a fantastic tale of international high finance and skulduggery...
...Family, 1917); of pneumonia; in Manhattan. Born into a wealthy Chicago family, Princetonian Poole (voted "Most Useless" by his class of '02) submerged himself in Manhattan's lower East Side to gather material on how the other half lived, won fame a dozen years later with a tale of New York's poor (The Harbor...