Word: taling
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...took 24 hours to set the Durant dish-washing tale straight. Though declaring himself bankrupt last February, Automan Durant is no down-&-outer, still maintains offices on Park Avenue, weekends on a $100,000 estate at Deal, N. J. President of Deal Gables Corp. (real estate), he owns a one-story building in North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening...
...tale revolves around Johnnie Stark, a petty gangster who fought with razors, picked up one girl after another, married, led his gang against the gangs of other slum districts, was eventually killed when hoodlums caught him without his weapons. His story is paralleled by that of his brother, Peter, who was driven by a fierce determination to get out of the slums, became a white-collar worker, married a good, respectable girl, but landed in trouble when he was forced to lead a strike. Aside from these two, the clearest characterization is Lizzie, Johnnie's wife, who married beneath...
This growing business was temptingly profitable. Its tales of wealth, sudden and not so sudden, are fabulous and some of them are real. Dean of the gold mining business is old Judge John W. Haussermann, who went to the Philippines 38 years ago as a second lieutenant of the 20th Kansas regiment and returned last July as Republican National Committeeman to hear Alf Landon accept his Presidential nomination. The tale concerning him is that anyone who put $100 into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along...
...Seven Sinners (Gaumont British) is a frank attempt to duplicate the success of, last year's outstandingly good Gaumont British comic-melodrama The Thirty-Nine Steps. A close imitation in urbane direction, restrained acting, swift pace, it has one important difference. Whereas The Thirty-Nine Steps was the tale of a hunted man, Seven Sinners is the story of a hunter...
...tells the story of Saha, a golden-eyed, jealous, aristocratic little animal that broke up a marriage, sapped the strength of young Alain Amparat until he came to care more for her than for his handsome wife. That Colette can make such a tale readable will be no surprise to her admirers. That she can manage to include in it many artful descriptions of amorous misadventures and much erotic play, they will take for granted. But if they expect her to make it plausible as well, they are demanding more of her fiction than she will give them...