Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meat in the Soup. Similar evidence that religion in Russia is alive is provided by one of the latest Soviet novels to reach the West (via an Italian translation). The Miraculous Icon is a 19th century moral tale in reverse: hero sinks down and down into the depths of Christianity, is saved in the nick of time by conversion to clear-eyed atheism...
...Princeton weekend brings with it a variety of House Dances. Adams House presents the "Tiger's Tale" with Ken Hamilton's Orchestra and the Historic Jazz Band. Eliot features "The Princeton Triangle Revue Show," with Jeff Carleton's Orchestra. Kirkland's "Tiger Rag" has Princeton's Own Minstrels, the Joe Abbott Quintet, and asorted folk singers...
From 1:36 of the second quarter the Crimson's 12-0 lead stood up, and there in lies another tale. The fact that the Quakers, who have the fastest set of backs in the Ivy League and had been averaging 23 points a game, were held scoreless is indicative of the excellent defensive play on the Crimson's part...
...tale of the two mayors began innocently enough after Burlington's Mayor Fitzpatrick, 51, and Rutland's Mayor...
...Prioresse's Tale Geoffrey Chaucer ended his version of one of the best-known stories of the Middle Ages. "In 1255," according to contemporary Chronicler Matthew Paris, "the Jews of Lincoln stole a boy called Hugh, who was about eight years old." After fattening him up, they were said to have staged a mock re-enactment of the Crucifixion, killing little Hugh to the accompaniment of fiendish tortures. "When the boy was dead," Paris concludes, "they took the body down from the cross, and for some reason disemboweled it; it is said for the purpose of their magic arts...