Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still ducking the first barrage of dead cats when another came his way. The Senate's investigation of five-percenters (TIME, Aug. 22) last week took up the story of the Allied Molasses Co. of New Jersey. Clumsy Harry Vaughan seemed to be the villain of that tale...
...person drives home from a modern office building in a 1949 Studebaker into a tairy-tale garage with artificially caved-in rafters-a hut of the witch in the woods where the babes got lost! Is there nothing wrong with it, this architectural schizophrenia...
Although few Americans know any of Strindberg's plays, they have heard his shrieks echoed on their own stage, particularly in the works of Eugene O'Neill and in some of Lillian Hellman's more unpleasant plays. Strindberg wrote straight historic drama, sunny fairy-tale plays and symbolic fantasies. But he is most noted for his dramatization-in a manner as unnerving as chalk scratching on a blackboard-of seemingly ordinary families in which hatred and insanity screech at each other over the tea cozy...
Anybody Got a Commodity? It is on this split between the active but lowbrow man-in-the-street and the wrangling but ineffectual man-of-intellect that Author McCarthy spins her tale. In McCarthy's fable, the incidents of everyday life on the mountaintop soon show that the split is in fact a bridgeless gulf, and Utopia itself a creation without foundations-doomed not so much by "history" as by the colonists' inability to produce "a commodity more tangible than morality" and hopeful...
...youth on his father's plantation, Manuel Serrano was fascinated by all the stories and legends he heard about ixbut. There was the tall tale of a 60-year-old woman who had not borne a child for 18 years; when her daughter died in childbirth, she took ixbut and had no trouble nursing her grandchild. There was the even taller tale of an Indian father who took ixbut and nursed his motherless infant himself...