Word: taling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication of a new book of travel by Peter Fleming, author of that fascinating book "Brazlian Adventure," is sure to win its round of attention and applause among the circle of fireside travellers. "One's Company" is the tale of Fleming's recent seven months as journalist for the London "Times" and observer of international alignment along various sections of the Chinese-Russian front...
Before he turned silent, Hauptmann told police an incredible tale about how the Lindbergh ransom came into his possession. He thought the money was "old letters left by a friend." After the friend, one Isadore Fisch, died in Leipzig last March Hauptmann discovered the money, and appropriated...
Topping our little tale yesterday of the efficient Boston newshawk comes another, even greater revelation. Always eager to please its Harvard Circulation the sedate editorial board of "Today's Truth, Tomorrow's Trend" has instituted a new column dealing solely with facts and fancies of the Harvard man and his University. And always eager to please both sides, the master minds of Washington Street have chosen the motto of our great rival in New Haven as its title "Lux et Veritas...
...illustrate how false reports circulate, the President then related a foundationless tale that started on Wall Street today, spread to Chicago, and came back to Washington for verification...
...lonely Pitcairn Island, the Bounty's last port of call. But when chance offered, something always turned up to prevent their going. Last summer, when he heard of a schooner which was to touch there, Hall decided to go even though Nordhoff could not accompany him. The Tale of a Shipwreck, a quiet, rambling narrative that tells not only of his voyage and shipwreck but of how and why he came to go to the South Seas in the first place, is a book that will be wanted by all amateurs of the sea and sea-narratives...