Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...
...then-some includes the shapeliest girls, the scantiest clothes available. These, together with plenty of steam-room antics and off-color dialogue, turn Hopwood's tale of a professor (Buddy Ebsen) who is completely unnerved at the sight of exposed female flesh into the likes of a burlesque show. Good Night Ladies, as Chicago Tribune Critic Cecil Smith put it, satisfied "every taste except good taste...
Tortilla Flat (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), a picaresque tale of life among squalid California paisanos, has had an odd history...
...Home, short-waved six nights a week to troops abroad. Included in the broadcast is a portion of Elmer Davis' five-minute news summary (CBS, 8:55 p.m. E.W.T.); a home-town report originating at a local station, bringing familiar voices to many a soldier; and a campfire tale specially written for the boys abroad. One of the writers: John Steinbeck...
Wallenstein chose the operas partly because of their typically American stories: a twangy, New Hampshire folk tale, a whimsical romance of small-town spinsters, adventures of school-age moppets caught in a hurricane, a wry story of the rough, shambling California gold-rush days. The King's Henchman, with its olde-English Aethelwold and Aelfrida, is the only .opera definitely not of the U.S. For The Second Hurricane Wallenstein has assembled a troupe of children, for Four Saints the original all-Negro cast...