Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shameful Shreds. Then Tom Corcoran opened his small pink mouth, told his story of the "threat." With cold, lucid, driving fury, he tore Ralph Brewster's tale to shameful shreds...
...bluff T. Webber Wilson laid down his big strong cigar, breezed up in a clean white suit to tell the committee his tale of difficulty and discouragement at the hands of the "Pearsonites." T. (for Thomas) Webber Wilson, onetime Congressman from Mississippi whom Senator Pat Harrison, not entirely unselfishly, rescued from political limbo with a Federal judgeship in the Islands, had previously distinguished himself by proceeding in the face of bitter opposition to prosecute a quadroon PWA clerk named Mclntosh for pilfering $38.40 worth of Government cement and lumber. Last week it developed that fierce discord had also arisen between...
...really a fairy story, Author Francis' tale is clothed in realism, but wanders into grotesque fancies that lie far from weekday life. Narrator of the story is Catherine, who tells her son this history of the childhood she spent in a Flanders farmhouse, in the years following the Franco-Prussian...
Last week cinemaddicts who also read books were offered an unusual treat: an adventure story that was not only dramatic but made good sense. Author B. Traven's tale even had the kind of moral that Hollywood likes-"The glittering treasure you are hunting for day & night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder"-even if its ending was too ruthlessly realistic for Hollywood's taste. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a story of prospecting for gold; it differs from other treasure-seeking tales chiefly in its air of authenticity, its soberly factual...
...Reporter Dreher afterward, "I started out in a taxicab to meet the farmer's automobile." Meet it he did. He commandeered the child, dragged him down on the floor of the taxi in case any of his rivals might have had a similar "hunch," got the whole exciting tale first hand...