Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touching a tale as had come from across the Irish Sea in many a year. Eire offered to sell Britain some fine canned beef. The British, hungry though they were, said no. Could Eire sell them canned horsemeat instead...
...Sleepy Hollow has lost the flavor of Irving's old tale. It is part of a world that believes much more in gags than in ghosts. And from Sleepy Hollow you well might think that the old tale had been a trilogy. The show is incredibly poky and protracted; it just won't keep movin' along. Nor has it very much more of musicomedy's factitious lure than of the old Hudson River Valley's drowsy charm; only here & there is a lyric sprightly, or the dancing gay. As Ichabod, angular Gil Lamb is likable...
Casbah (Universal-International). "Come with me to the Casbah" has become almost as solid a cliché, in American romantic kidding, as Mae West's "Come up and see me some time" used to be. The Casbah owes its popularity to Detective Ashelbe's tried & true romantic tale about the French super-crook Pépé le Moko (Tony Martin), who just sneers at the cops as long as he keeps to the native quarter of Algiers, but doesn't dare venture outside. It is also the story of a plainclothesman (Peter Lorre) who languidly bides...
...Appleseed, advised by a Guardian Angel in a coonskin cap; 4) Donald Duck, Joe Carioca and Organist Ethel Smith in the throes of a samba; 5) an apotheosis of Joyce Kilmer's Trees; 6) a young tugboat named Little Toot which disgraces and redeems itself; 7) a tall-tale, free-for-all finale about Pecos Bill, his horse Widow-maker and his gal Sluefoot...
...lived a wild, free, gypsy life. His friends point out that he has always been an intense family man (he has had nine children), that he succeeded as a painter through hard labor, and never ceases struggling to improve his art (frequently overworking his larger pictures). A less friendly tale has it that he once dived from a cliff of his native Wales, struck his head on a rock under the water, and came up a spluttering genius. In fact, the stories told about John are as contradictory as the man himself...