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Word: taling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scenarist, Sturges wrote a tender little tale about 24 hours in the life of Jimmy MacDonald (Dick Powell), a perennial slogan contestant who is out for Maxford House Coffee Co.'s $25,000 prize. Powell is a $22-a-week comptometer clerk with three practical-joking friends who paste together a bogus telegram notifying him he has won the contest. By dint of some improbable inefficiency in the Maxford House organization, he collects the check, spends a sizable slice of it before the hoax is bared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 21, 1940 | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

...highbrows' loss is the hoi-polloi's gain, for inside the binding is a fascinating tale, expertly handled by a young writer who shows himself to be a master of psychological study. In addition, Clark catches the true flavor of his setting. No drug-store cowboy, the author completely revolutionizes the Zane Grey tradition of the Western novel in which men are mangled and women wangled...

Author: By J. P. L., | Title: THE BOOKSHELF | 10/8/1940 | See Source »

...himself at last, would write. With the emotional richness of his race and his Church, Fante writes mostly of his childhood-First Communion, baseball ambitions, parochial schools, his volatile father, long-suffering mother-always an easier trick than to write well of the adult world. But his best tale, "A Wife for Dino Rossi," is grown-up stuff, sad, funny, brutal, tender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tellers of Tales | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

Like the sectional tale, the picaresque novel is a natural form for a nation 3,000 miles wide, as it is for the writer who 1) wants to assemble incidents without pretext of a plot, 2) feels vague cosmic significances in man's wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tellers of Tales | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

There is no such unreal detachment in another English tale, Landfall (Morrow, $2.50) by Nevil Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway). Five months before World War II began, Shute's novel, Ordeal, depicted its coming horrors with remarkable power and prescience. Onetime dirigible builder and airplane manufacturer, Shute is now working at the Admiralty, wrote Landfall in his spare time. It is the story of an R. A. F. pilot on the Channel patrol who sinks a submarine, falls in love with a barmaid. The Navy thinks the submarine was British; Mona, her ears open behind the bar, sets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tellers of Tales | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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