Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most part, when the grindstone is still, the book is an entertaining tale of espionage and of resourcefulness in the conduct of a little advertised but important part of the war machine. MI-8, organized through Yardley's initiative, had its hands full in keeping pace with German chemists, who gave their spies silk scarves, or even silk-covered tuxedo-buttons, impregnated with secret ink chemicals which could be devolped with only one specific reagent. It was the Secret Ink Bureau which brought about the capture of Madame de Victoria, most dangerous of the German spies, who introduced high explosives...
...contracts, Farrar & Rinehart stepped overnight from second rank to very first. Publisher Farrar was pleased, and well he might be, to be at 36 head of such an affair. For while his favorite author may be Marlowe, no man minds having his life turn into a Horatio Alger tale. Johnny Farrar was a poor boy from Vermont. When he went to Yale to join its strong Class of 1919 he had no influential friends, no cushiony background to carry him over the bumps. Small, squeaky-voiced, with a tousled mop of red hair, Farrar did not look like...
...hunts and fishes, tells many a tall tale about both. Good-natured, easygoing, fairly industrious, scrupulously honest, he jokingly refers to himself...
Author Davis' tale is of what happened to the MacDougall family when Grandfather died. All the MacDougall children were grown up, most of them were middleaged; they had all seen their best days. Old Mrs. MacDougall was crippled, senescent; at the funeral she did not realize her husband was dead, and afterwards, when they told her, she kept forgetting. Her children as you meet them first seem i depressingly small, middle-class Middle Western lot, but as you get to know them i tetter they grow to life size-not to heroic or tragic or grotesque proportions. Because Author...
...brown: by the time he gets through with his characters there is not a single one you can stomach. Georgie is pathetic but repulsive; Purfleet is a cad; Geoffrey a fool; all the rest run the gamut of knavery and oafishness. In a supererogatory epilog Aldington underlines his tale: England is on the downgrade, nothing can help her. the War killed off the best, delivered the rest into the strangling clutch of "human weeds...