Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...epic called S. O. S. Iceberg, during the filming of which she lived in a Greenland tent for four months (TIME, Oct. 2, 1933). The same year, she wrote, directed and acted in The Blue Light, in which magnificent photography of the Dolomites as background for a fairy tale corroborated Leni Riefenstahl's thesis that sex appeal is unnecessary in the cinema...
When Editor Tom Shea of Scripps' Portland News-Telegram saw this story splashed on the Oregonian's front page, he promptly assigned a reporter to interview the murdered man's widow. Mrs. Akin hotly denied the tale, declared that her husband would never have confided in Israel because he knew Israel was a thief and hated him. When he read that statement in the News-Telegram, Jeweler Israel sued the paper for libel, asking $100,000 damages...
...their formidable president, United Mine Workers of America like to tell this tale as an illustration not only of his strength and courage but of his resource and guile. Last week, for the first time since they moved their headquarters from Indianapolis, 1,716 U. M. W. leaders met in Washington for their biennial convention. There was more money ($2,298,000) in the treasury, more members (540,000) on the rolls than ever before in the union's 46 years. But what made the miners' convention really significant was that the doughty conqueror of Spanish Pete would...
Richard Loeb died after being slashed 56 times with a razor by another convict in a prison washroom at the Illinois Penitentiary at Stateville. Held for murder, Prisoner James Day, a bantamweight larcenist of 23, swore he had killed in self-defense, told as foul a tale as has ever come over prison walls. He said that Loeb was an autocrat behind bars. As head of the prison school, he could parcel out soft jobs to fellow inmates. He ate in his cell and, by transferring sums from their well-stocked bank accounts, he and Leopold could get guards...
...Stateville for the body. In Chicago, a force of detectives kept the public away from the funeral parlor, and a cordon of police turned all comers away from the cemetery. Thereupon a rumor swept through the city that Loeb had not been killed at all, that the whole tale of murder and burial was a fabrication by which his family had at last bought his way to freedom. That made Warden Ragen laugh. Said he: "You don't need to worry any more about Loeb...