Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willows and bad bat willows depend on the botanical strains and perhaps the sex of the willow tree. Were Fairies an Actual Race of Men? asked Dr. John Arnott MacCulloch, the learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many a fairy tale deals with gnomes, dwarfs and such little folk who live in crevices, caves, dells, almost any place where they can hide from the natural men whom they often mortally hate & fear. Well may it be that the bitter Rumpelstilzchens of folklore date back to a long-lost pygmy race...
...Benson might have gone unpunished to his grave had not the Furies taken a hand in hounding him. Human avengers came to his hideout too late, but had the workman-like satisfaction of chucking what was left of him into the Five Points rat-pit. Author Komroff's tale of 100-year-old Manhattan is no lavender-scented memorial, but a crude, almost reportorial narrative which lets the background take care of itself. A New York Tempest is a tale not of Manhattan's 400 (so designated circa 1889) but of its 200,000 small-town citizens...
...Express glib Jockey Beary told a tale of how he has been the secret intermediary between the British and Free State governments in recent weeks, claiming to have arranged President de Valera's original face-to-face meeting at No. 10 Downing Street with Premier James Ramsay MacDonald (TIME, June...
Artfully translated by Arthur Waley the first four parts of Lady Murasaki's 900-year-old Japanese masterpiece, Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, The Sacred Tree, The Wreath of Cloud, Blue Trousers), have given many an Occidental reader an appetite for the dainty psychological morsels of antique Nippon. With all its predecessors' inimitable flavor, The Lady of the Boat tells a simple story, though its characters are modernistically complex...
...tale is of Kaoru and Niou, two princes of noble blood, and their affairs with Agemaki and Kozeri, Prince Hachi's lovely daughters. Kaoru is an exceptional youth with such a natural fragrance that even at a distance people can smell his "hundred-step scent." Niou, who carries no such natural musk, tries to emulate his friend by becoming an expert mixer of perfumes. But Niou's personal life, dedicated to endless amours, is not so savory. Kaoru. with heavenly leanings, leaves women and the court alone...