Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ordinarily Chancellor Chamberlain is so standoffish that for reporters to get anything of a personal nature out of the Treasury is all but impossible. Last week, however, they found Neville Chamberlain willing to confirm the Irishman's tale in all details. Jubilant were the Chancellor's friends, now busy grooming him to succeed Stanley Baldwin before long as Prime Minister, but fearful that frosty Mr. Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed...
...Constantin Cotolan marched among the chief mourners in the funeral procession of George V. From his unusual costume (see cut), gossips spread the tale that he was a masseur accompanying queasy Carol of Rumania (TIME, Feb. 10). It was later announced (TIME, March 9) that Constantin Cotolan's Sovereign had included him among the dignitaries to represent Rumanian War heroes...
...50th book came out last week, hardly a critic raised his head. But for readers who like to settle comfortably in bed with a nice warm-hearted story, Author Rinehart had once more supplied just the thing. To an uncritical eye The Doctor is a hearty moral tale that shades almost imperceptibly away from real life. Mary Roberts Rinehart has more than a nodding acquaintance with most of the people she writes about, and by the standards of her school her sympathies are keen. To those who mistake the itch and ache of sentimentality for the cathartic stir of tragedy...
Promises made by most first novels are rash. But the promise of Katharine Hamill's Swamp Shadow has good collateral behind it. Her tale of poor whites on Mississippi's Gulf Coast is neither dreary case-history nor melodrama plastered together with notebook dialect, but an ably written, objectively presented story of some forgotten men & women...
...Minnie Hite Moody-Julian Messner ($2.50). Depressing description of the private lives of some Georgia Negroes, written in an un-nerving combination of literate English and darky dialect. A CRIME-Georges Bernanos-Dutton ($2). Consisting largely of jerky conversation, liberally peppered with dots and dashes, this unconventional murder tale is likely to antagonize the mystery-addict, despite the compelling, almost hypnotic quality of the characters. Non-Fiction THE HERITAGE OF THE CATHEDRAL- Sartell Prentice-Morrow ($3.50). Offering the layman a rich interpretation of church architecture through the ages, this work should provide absorbing reading for conscientious tourists, many a pleasant...