Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Charles Dickens' alternate periods of elation and depression were blended with sadomasochism, the marks of which run "like a scarlet thread through all his writings" (especially in the unbridled violence of A Tale of Two Cities...
Pressurized Prisoners. This fanciful tale was hardly in circulation when a bigger & better version caught up with it. The space ship's space men were not dead at all. Fifteen of them had been captured alive. They would not, or could not talk (as earthbound creatures know talking), but one of them obligingly drew a map of the solar system and pointed to the second planet from the sun. Thereupon, at the suggestion of a smart Earthling, all the prisoners were hastily placed in a pressurized chamber filled with carbon dioxide to simulate the atmosphere of Venus...
This Gothic tale is artificially tensed by Author Brooke with misleading clues (the point of the confrontation at the Druids' stones is never made clear) and contrived devices of suspense. The Scapegoat still has the ugly reality of a fatal disease...
...exclusive story. After Navyman Scott and four of his party died of cold and hunger on the way back from the Pole in 1912, the Strand scored a major international beat when a search party found his dramatic diary: "Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale . . ." On the tale, circulation soared to 300,000 in Britain...