Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is an immortal folk tale. In Nature Magazine last week Ornithologists Lewis and Marian Walker produced proof it is moonshine. They had worked it all out with weights on a powerful and well-muscled golden eagle...
Denouement. Last week the President told the country: "Planes cost money ... a lot of it." The cost of the effort to change the U. S. over into a military economy was as yet inestimable. Billions no longer shocked the U. S., incalculable budgets had become like fairy tales, with a fairy tale's gossamer insubstantiality...
...group of local surgeons removed the 21-year-old boy's cataracts, fitted him with a pair of thick-lensed glasses, gave him sight. Joyous George Campbell, now able to read with his eyes, last fortnight told radio listeners of Kansas City's WDAF the lyrical tale of his "birthday into light...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a drastic reworking of Robert Sherwood's doleful drama about a love episode in Blighty during World War I-keyed up to catch the overtones of World War II, and toned down to meet the objections of censors. Waterloo Bridge is no longer a tale of a shy Canadian soldier who falls in love with a shy London trull. It is the story of a good-looking, upper-class British officer (Robert Taylor) who, during an air raid, conceives an undying passion for a good-looking ballerina (Vivien Leigh). After causing her to lose...
...sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none of its genial moralizing and pathetic humor...