Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outworking and overworking them, seldom more than 100 yards from his fighting perimeter. Everything he had ever learned came together in the decisive moment of his life. If a precious radio broke down, he could repair it himself, then outwit Japanese jamming by telling his enemies a fairy tale in their own language, dumbfounding them into silence long enough to rasp out his message in English...
...again at that time of year when the round man flips out his notebook and thumbs through to decide who will find the biggest presents under his tree. I know that you probably doubt that he exists because to you old Kris is just another bourgcols fairy tale for fooling the downtrodden proletarians, but he certainly believes in you. I know that he does because I've been peeking over his shoulder the last few days and saw what he had beside your name. I just thought you might like to know how things stand between...
...Wife No. 1, Aggatha Ann,* marched beside him for 33 years. In 1866 she fell ill, and as "Mortification" set in, Lee "watched with her all Night, lifting & turning her in Bed about every 5 minits." As in an Old Testament tale, the huge family assembles at the deathbed to hear the dying injunction, while son Joseph rides to the mountain for a "Bucket of Snow" to cool his mother's lips. Meanwhile, "the Lumber previously dressed up" stands ready for the coffin-for this is a pioneer story in which prayer and practicality are never far apart...
With this novel of romance and intrigue, the second son of the late Lord Tweedsmuir, more widely known as John (The 39 Steps') Buchan, takes his own first fictional step. Buchan fils proves that like Buchan pere he can turn a marsh-mallow-weight tale until it is neatly toasted. The setting is India; the set is buna sahib; the time is mainly the '30s; the season is boredom. But at least two men and one woman think there is more to India than what can be seen through the bottom of a gin-sling glass...
...this reason I leave it to the others who are much better informed. But one thing is certain, and that is, when one is treating social relations as they exist in America today, the world situation should make him stop and reflect along with Dean Swift in a Tale of a Tub, that, "...When a man's fancy gets astride of his Reason, when Imagination is at Cuffs with the Senses, and common Understanding, as well as common Sense is kicked out Doors; the first Proselyte he makes is Himself, and when that is once compasse'd, the Difficulty...