Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced then that he would let Europe have its next war "without assistance from me." But Wythe Williams still had his pipe lines to Europe, has run many an inside yarn from abroad. One that caught the public fancy, and hit U. S. front pages everywhere, was the racy tale in December 1938 of the supposed horsewhipping of amorous little Nazi Paul Joseph Goebbels for love-poaching. Editor Williams missed the opening date of war by only three days, has enjoyed many an I-told-you-so on international developments...
...that it will largely be. As such it may nevertheless be an illuminating piece of historical literature, as are Robert Graves's two stories of a Roman emperor (I, Claudius and Claudius, the God). Or it may reach the second-rate level of a plausible, readable and honest tale like The Star-Gazer, which is a freely fictional novel of the life of Galileo...
...illuminating introduction, Mr. Dorson makes a general discussion of "Frontier Humor and Legend." He treats with the exaggeration, verbal imagery, and other conventions of this frontier humor. Most significantly of all, he mentions the "unmistakable sameness to the varied versions of the American tall tale--It is the frontiersman's fun, his escape, his opportunity to create." The Crockett Almanacs are the true expression of the frontier; as such Mr. Dorson has done a valuable service in making this material accessible...
...year, with its frail but refreshing promise of peace, brings us almost daily from Warsaw and Cracow, from Pomerania, Posen and Silesia, a tale of destitution, destruction and infamy of every description. . . . These are not confined to the sections of the country under Russian occupation, heart-rending as news from that quarter has been. Even more violent and persistent is the assault upon elementary justice and decency in that part of prostrate Poland that has fallen to German administration...
...writes books, from which he gets too little money; the young woman works very hard and is very "gallant." The arduous simplicities of their living and their small adventures are described in great detail; they have a baby; they are very happy indeed. Warm readers will find the tale disarming; cool readers may wonder whether love so nearly cloudless is interesting enough to write or read about. It may, however, forerun a wartime wave of back-to-the-bed "escape" novels...