Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...falls in love with a colorless young socialite. Robert Montgomery leaves her when he finds out about her bygone irregularities, but after a break he takes her back again. When his family decides that it is time for him to marry, Garbo goes away. The way this tale is told is as old as the material, but it becomes a superb illustration of Garbo's ability. When she is in front of the camera she creates a convincing, unforgettable atmosphere of the exotic with her gestures, her small, sad face, the deep tones of her voice. She brings to life...
...first told the story. Last week M. C. Turner of Dallas and P. Maclnnes Neilson of Pittsburgh, booking agents, affirmed that they had been present when Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., sensational young publicist, boasting of a motor trip with the Italian Prime Minister, had told General Butler an identical tale...
...along comes Dr. Axel Munthe, with his equally estimable book The Story of San Michcle and tells us, on p. 67, of the "terrible episode of the six Russian peasants bitten by a pack of mad wolves and sent to the Institut Pasteur." Dr. Munthe continues with his sorry tale of how these six moujiks all became "raving mad" and the "doomed men" were "helped to a painless death" and "all of the newspapers were full of the most ghastly descriptions of the death of the Russian moujiks...
Midnight. Last week Theatre Guild subscribers filed reverently through the Guild Theatre's handsome lobby, up the stairs past the bust of George Bernard Shaw and bumped right into a murder melodrama. For Midnight relates the tale of a law-abiding florist (Frederick Perry) who, as foreman of a jury, has sent a woman to the electric chair for killing a man. At the execution, Midnight, while newshawks are invading his home on one pretext or another to catch his reaction, the florist's daughter (Linda Watkins of June Moon) staggers in with a revolver and the tale...
...only will it draw the attention of those with an aesthetic appreciation for beautiful forms, but also it should have a limitless value to those who are interested in history and the progress of the human race. Rather than being written in the pages of lengthy volumes, a tale of history is here told in finely worked precious metal and gems explaining more tersely and no less clearly how the people in the dawn of civilization speculated on the phenomena of nature. One does not need to be a Keats before a Grecian Urn to learn from these foster-children...