Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Chicago Daily News's lanky, quiet-spoken Far Eastern Correspondent Archibald T. Steele sent out a tale of a visitor to No. 76 Jessfield Road, Shanghai. He had interviewed in Chungking one of the few Chinese alive to tell the story of a visit there...
...Tale of a Japanese Schoolboy. Yosuke Matsuoka was born in March 1880, at the little port of Morotsumi in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the lovely island-flecked Inland Sea some 500 miles west of Tokyo...
Familiar indeed to readers of Somerset Maugham was the story's plot, a simple, violent tale of British mannerliness upset by tropic passions. Last December 57-year-old Sir Jock married young Diana Caldwell in London, brought her out to his Kenya estate. At the smart Muthaiga Country Club she had met the dashing earl, fallen violently and very publicly in love with him less than a month after her marriage. Sir Jock had tried to persuade her to go with him to Ceylon to forget the earl. When she refused he even offered to go away himself. Then...
Spring Offensive opens with a cast of East Anglian farmers and tradesmen organizing their local government for the land reclamation task. With the homely talk of people transacting their everyday affairs, they plan their campaign, put it into action. The rest of the tale is told through the eyes of a small boy evacuated from the city. He sees one old farm, gone to pot since World War I, rehabilitated with the aid of pooled machinery and labor. He learns that there must be no more of this business of farming the land properly only in wartime...
...progress of culture ultimately requiring the union of the arts in a popular synthesis of sociological import. The Ring [of the Nibelungs] accordingly celebrates in turn the superman-to-be, the fall of the old gods through the curse of gold, and the triumph of Germanism, in one long tale of blood, lust and deceit. . . . History is a sieve that works, and the residue is the artwork of the future...