Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suing bondholders labeled one of the company's moves to obtain bank loans as fraudulent, it was too much. In his wide-eyed old Fierce-Arrow touring car (1923 model) he hurried down to court. Wear- ing a worn suit and shapeless shoes, spry old Robert Long told his tale with a grim smile. For leading his organization into Northwest timber he showed no regret...
Iron men and wooden ships-the cat-o'-nine-taiis-South Sea paradise-mutiny- shipwreck-open boats-a trial for piracy, with perjury and missing witnesses-unjust sentence-happy ending-these are the time-honored ingredients of Authors Nordhoff & Hall's surefire seafaring tale...
...tale of what happened to her is told by one of her midshipmen. Roger Byam...
Those who from experience expect each Faulkner tale to be more gruesomely Gothic than the last will be disappointed in Light in August. Not nearly so horrible as Sanctuary (TIME...
...laws that govern men are most enticing. Horoscopes, new as they may be to Harvard, perhaps explain as well why Thou art Thou, as do the addled Viennese hiero-phants. Be that as it may, the rise of the Corsican, the fall of the Hapsburgs, even the tale of a Freshman, all are food to the Vagabond...