Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knight begins with an episode of chivalric romance--the story of Palamon and Arcite. When the Miller, who is "dronke with ale," interrupts, a squabble ensues, and it is some time before the Man of Law can tell his Tale...
...another pilgrim, a Clerk; is of a different mind. As evidence for his belief in the rightful "souverainetee" of the husband he tells a story he has heard at Padua of a "learned clerke", "Fraunceys Petrark" by name. His tale must have impressed his hearers in opposition to his case...
This morning at nine Professor Robinson will continue the reading of "The Clerke's Tale"--the tale of patient Griselda--in Emerson A. The Vagabond will be there because he has discovered the delight of Geoffrey Chaucer--and because he has also discovered the most beautiful reading voice in Harvard University...
...Sherwood Anderson added the portrait of an active, wilful, adventurous girl to his gallery. Although it has its share of shadowy eccentrics-including one young fellow who wants to be a horse-it differs from Anderson's previous works in its melodramatic fire & smoke, since it is a tale of moonshiners, murders, narrow escapes and successful crimes...
...Administration side of the franc maneuver last week was a fascinating story in itself (see p. 12). If there was a British story, the British sat on it. In France the Cabinet's charming financial fairy tale was to substitute for such unpleasant words as "inflation" or "devaluation" the pleasant word "adjustment" or in French "l'alignement des monnaies." That is to say, the French Cabinet claims that what is being done is to adjust the franc by reducing its value and aligning it firmly with the dollar and the pound. As in all good fairy tales there...