Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich and warred against unjust rulers. Readers will find this chronicle of their deeds and stratagems amazingly fresh, and once their ears are accustomed to the Chinese tone, reassuringly universal. There are surprisingly few Oriental locutions or ceremonial incantations; the narrative is written even more simply than the famed Tale of Genji (TIME, July 3). Shui Hu Chuan's Chinese manners are polite: each of its 70 chapters begins, "It is said:" ends in some such manner as. "How then did Shih Chin and the three chieftains escape? Pray hear it told in the next chapter...
...evening star shining above a dead branch. A few other stars are out, but very dim. It's a night far from our time, far even from our world. Not an owl hooting, but the honeysuckle still sweet. And so, my most dear, here endeth the tale! Good-night...
...faithless, cruci, relentless devil, whose feet the world licked, whose name the world cursed. And where Henry's spirit listeth the camera follows, watching urchin Tom Garner high diving into a rocky bottom, president Tom Garner buying up rusty railroads, husband Tom Garner sweating out, for his wife, the tale of his new love...
...Cohan to take five years ago. In the first act of The Great God Brown, Playwright O'Neill searched an adolescent character's mind. But few playgoers would have guessed from these clues that Eugene O'Neill would ever set out to tell the Tarkingtonian tale of the Millers of Connecticut...
...earlier novels, but if they are real Priestley enthusiasts they will like it. Others may consider that Author Priestley has hit an easy mark and is jumping on a man of straw when he is down. Everybody will recognize Wonder Hero as both an entertaining and a moral tale. Charlie Habble was a perfectly ordinary young Midlander except for two things: he had no girl and he had a job. His job was on the night shift of a chemical plant: he had to keep awake, watch gauges, see that no fire started. One night, after one too many drinks...