Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day he surrendered. The state board of pardons and paroles held a hearing, watched curiously as dozens of the fugitive's old friends from Rutledge crowded in, listened even more curiously to the tale they had to tell...
Outline of my life. R. C. Benchley, Born Isle of Wight, September 15, 1807. Shipped as cabin boy on Florence J. Marble, 1815. Arrested for bigamy and murder in Port Said, 1817. Released 1820. Wrote "Tale of Two Cities." Married Princess Anastasie of Portugal, 1831. Children: Prince Rupprecht and several little girls. Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" 1850. Editor "Godey's Ladies Book" 1851-'56. Began Les Miserables 1870 (finished by Victor Hugo). Died 1871. Buried in Westminster Abbey...
...charming little musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf, which he wrote to help children identify orchestral instruments, that Prokofiev is mainly known to the U.S. man in the street. He brought the piece to Koussevitsky, tartly recommending it as suitably infantile for Boston and its critics - who had severely panned his Fourth Symphony. Cinemactor Basil Rathbone and Actor-Singer Richard Hale as narrators have made recordings which are now perennial Christmas best sellers. Last season it was played twelve times by U.S. symphony orchestras; it was also dance-timed by Guy Lombardo's Royal Canadians (TIME...
...more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world's best-loved love stories. Medieval ladies embroidered scenes from the tale on fine linen and silk; medieval craftsmen enshrined the lovers on gold and ivory and wood. Tristan and Iseult were also favored by scores of poets, including Chaucer, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Tennyson, Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson and by Composer Richard Wagner, who built the legend into an opera...
...NUMBER CAN PLAY-Edward Harris Heth-Harper ($2.50). This taut tale of what happened one night in big-time Charley King's midwestern gambling house will give ordinary bridge and poker fans a rough notion of the fever that throbs in a sure-enough gambler's veins. Of that momentous night when Charley had his triumph-and his comeuppance-Wisconsin-born Author Heth has made a fast-moving short novel. His slightly lopsided characters look startlingly real in the smoky, harshly lit room where little Bergson sweats over, a two-bit bet and a stranger's trembling...