Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West European Section of the Red Army's Military Intelligence) and Alexander Barmine. Reiss's body was found riddled with 15 bullets on a lonely road in Switzerland. Krivitsky's body was found in an obscure Washington, D. C. hotel. Barmine lived to tell this tale...
...youth in Paris, claimed Rivera, who loves a tall tale and knows how to tell one, he ate women. His motive was scientific: to prove that the human species thrives best on the flesh of its own kind. Male meat was good. (Rivera's present ambition, he said, is to taste a rump steak from Hermann Goring.) But female meat was better. Women's brains, said Rivera, should not be derided. Pickled, they are delicious. And, there was nothing more toothsome than a breaded chop cut from a charming young woman...
...something a little "fierce" in the libretto's psychological case history of a sadistic Suffolk fisherman (adapted from a 19th-Century poem by George Crabbe). The boyish, mild-looking composer (when he was eight he wrote an angry song to be sung by God) indignantly denied that his tale of a madman was gloomy: "It is the struggle of the individual against the masses ... a subject very close to my heart...
...origin lost in the misty beginnings of all folklore, rapscallion Reynard's tale has been told and retold in a score of tongues. His name, his cunning, and the basis of some of his adventures are discernible in Aesop's fables and in the Hindu myths from which those fables came. In the 19th Century, philologist and fairytale-teller Jacob Grimm republished the story with all the gusty lustiness of earlier tellings; in a politer version Goethe made an epic poem of it. No less than 27 episodes of Le Roman de Renard were penned in medieval France...
Under crossexamination, Germans who had told of Hitler's death twisted their stories, clashed in detail, finally admitted that no one had seen the Fiihrer die. Finally the tale told by a member of! Hitler's personal bodyguard catalyzed the conflicting stories. The bodyguard, an SS Untergruppenfuhrer, last saw Hitler on April 27, in his personal room in the Chancellery...