Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Skepticism greeted a tale of Tibet brought to London last week by one Jill Cossley-Blatt, Englishwoman, and a Dr. Irvine Baird, Canadian. But the pair claimed that they had proof of a tribe who live in a cranny of the Himalayas and "are white and appear to belong to the earliest civilization. We were able to identify this race of people by their writings. Their hieroglyphics are the same as those of the old Chaldeans. It is possible that some 2,000 or more years B. c. they moved away from their home in Mesopotamia and traveled...
...kept on screaming. Extra tellers, $8,000,000 in cash, and support of other banks enabled East New York Savings to meet the resultant run easily. Withdrawals came to about $3,500,000 against deposits of $67,416,000. Not so happy has been the winter's tale of banking in other sections of the U. S. The storm which lashed the banking structure of New England blew itself out in Hartford fortnight ago when three institutions suspended, including the $20,000,000, 80-year-old City Bank & Trust Co. Other failures of the fortnight included Bank of Westerville...
...fanned when curious newshawks discovered that the late President Wilson, stalwart Fletcherite, was wont to read him into the small hours in the Presidential bed. No extremist, no strainer after gruesome effects or heart-clutching surprises, Author Fletcher tells quietly a plain and fairly plausible tale, introduces no supermen, no omniscient gods of the crime world. If you are tired of Sherlock Holmeses and their attendant Watsons you may find Author Fletcher's detectives a pleasant change...
...Harbourmaster is a ripe book; no young man could have written it. It is full of humor, tolerance and a kind of cool dogmatism that you may more than once find irritating in the course of its 439 leisurely pages. Narrator Spenlove-McFee tells his tortuous tale in his own way and cannot be hurried. While the passengers of S. S. Camotan, on a Caribbean pleasure-cruise, fretted at not being allowed to go ashore at Puerto Balboa because a revolution had just broken out there, Chief Engineer Spenlove entertained some of them with a tale. The day before. Puerto...
Somewhere in Germany, in the year 1919, three young painters and a camera-man hatched an idea for a new film. They wanted to use that impersonal and reportorial tool, the camera, to tell a tale from a madman's brain and show the world through a mad-man's eyes. They wanted to becloud the lens, to forsake realism to gain artistic reality. In 1920 this film was finished, and "Dr. Caligari" made his crooked bow to Europe. In those days nothing like it had been seen. Devotees of the arts went to marvel, and there was talk...