Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
...want to tell you no tale...
...beauty of ours is that all the afflicted one has to do is to take a dose before she retires at night, and in the morning she will be amazed at the tell-tale effects of the worthy remedy...
Proud of his intellect, Yale has built up a fund of tradition about Patriarch Hadley. One campus tale has it that he taught his son Morris calculus one afternoon while out walking, illustrating his discourse by scratching geometrical figures on the hard ground with twigs...
...best historical romances now are being written by the Germans: Author Neumann, one of the youngest historian-romancers, is one of the best. His The Devil (Der Teufel) written on the same subject as Sir Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, made Quentin Durward seem like a nursery tale. King Haber (Konig Haber) is a collection of three stories, more like condensed novels than short stories, written several years ago, now translated for the first time...