Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boats. Up & down the broad Hudson River between Albany and Manhattan big white steamers plough by day and plough by night. Just a year ago Hudson River Night Line, famed as all night lines are in many a locker room tale, ploughed right into receivership. Last week Hudson River Day Line (no corporate kin) ploughed into receivership, too. As receiver, courts appointed Alfred Van Santvoord Olcott, the Line's president. Great-grandson of Commodore Abraham Van Santvoord whose "safety barges" were the talk of the river 125 years ago, Receiver Olcott said the company had been unable to obtain...
...English with a difference. Racial bias toward tragic fancy, racial prejudice against successful fact give the Irish writer a peculiar angle on even plain Saxon themes. Author Stuart's theme is patriotism-which to an Irishman is partly like politics and partly like being in love. His tale, which starts realistically enough and wanders through dirty Dublin streets, ends toward the stars...
Author Stuart tells this highly improbable and occasionally ridiculous tale with such feeling that its incoherent passion is impressive, convincing in spite of itself...
...retorted: "Stanley's triumphs were gained when I was an adolescent; the whole world was talking of him then; he was the hero of the lads of my generation; his name was a trumpet-call; his mere existence stirred us as a child is stirred by a fairy-tale." Able Novelist Wassermann, better at spinning new fairytales than at retelling old ones, fails to bring to life the hero of his adolescence, but his book will serve to remind the world of many a forgotten fact about a onetime world-figure...
Sardinia, due south of Corsica, is a large island in the Mediterranean belonging to Italy. But Sardinians remember other allegiances-once they were Moorish, once Spanish, once even Austrian. Clannish, independent, like all islanders they dislike and distrust dwellers on the mainland. Authoress Posse-Brazdova tells a grim tale of a Sardinian private during the War who. told that he could not take to the rear a prisoner he had captured, made sure of him by biting through the artery in his neck, guzzling his blood in great gulps. The Sassari Brigade (Sardinian) was the only one that...