Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TALE OF A SHIPWRECK-James Norman Hall-Nought on Mifflin...
...tale went on. At the White House, President Roosevelt was supposed to have suggested that General Johnson go to Europe to study recovery measures. The General rapped back: "You're trying to ease me out like George Peek." Then he stalked angrily back to his office. Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, his onetime stenographer but now his ultraloyal assistant and shadow at NRA headquarters, urged him to make a "dramatic exit," for Business would surely rally to him if he did so. So the General dictated a two-and-a-half page letter. By midnight it was done...
Such was the tale. The details might be denied one by one as fabulous but their total effect was to dramatize beyond any denial the inward convulsions through which NRA is passing. About questions of impersonal policy, a highly personal contest was raging. This two-fold fight was not between Hugh Johnson and Donald Richberg alone. It was, in effect, a game of mixed doubles...
Nura's evanescent, occasionally rhymed tale traces the history of a grave, unearthly, mild-mannered girl from birth beneath a Buttermilk Tree to motherhood. More interesting to most readers will be Nura's black and white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross...
Candles in the Storm, despite its bloody climax, is a quiet tale of people who go to a summer colony to work. Its value does not depend upon its plot which holds its fragments together, but upon occasional flashes of insight into character...