Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rome newspapers last week came up with a horrendous tale of the "bestial treatment" of Italians and Germans in the cruel concentration camps of the U.S. Talebearer was one Armando Tosi, onetime manager of the Italian restaurant at the New York World's Fair, who said he got his news from some of his underlings who were rounded up as unregistered aliens by the FBI last...
Author Faulkner, a former WPA official, tells this shabby and pathetic tale with great literary tact, balancing against the slapstick ignorance and innate apathy of his unheroic characters, their deep sense of their own personal dignity, natural courtesy, terrible patience, thwarted honesty. No idealization, Men Working is the most human book that has been written about WPA workers, the saddest and the funniest...
...same year (1860) as he: Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland and Bliss Perry. Kitty, the last to retire, stuck it out to 76 (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936). At his last lecture the room was crowded with reverent Harvard visitors. Kitty lectured as usual on The Winter's Tale. But he did not end his lecture as usual by marching up the aisle and uttering his last sentence at the door as the bell in Harvard Hall tolled the hour. Instead, he stood on the platform and said quietly, "We'll stop here." A roar of applause rolled over...
...rich man trying to make his last and greatest sale, that of his own country. It is a somber story of self-respect, of honor and decency being pawned to the Nazis for the price of a soft bed in a luxury hotel. It is a tale of laughter growing old and of the Judas whine of treachery taking its place. It is the record of P. G. Wodehouse, ending forty years of money-making fun with the worst joke he ever made in his life...
Brentano's best-seller (8,000 copies) shows that even in exile the French have not forgotten sex; it is Emigrés de Luxe, a torrid tale of refugees in New York by Maurice Dekobra, worldly wise author of La Madonne des Sleepings...