Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Home from New Guinea, Lieut. Colonel Jane Clement, of Army Nurse Corps, told a tale of trade: in return for rescuing flyers downed in the jungles, the tonsorially minded natives are supplied with peroxide to bleach their hair...
...Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known, rarely published Americana. If they tell little about U.S. history, they tell much about U.S. character. Editor Botkin wisely keeps his comment to a minimum, lets his collection tell its own story in its own lingo...
...ancient, charming and all but extinct people-the Lacandon Indians in the remote southern state of Chiapas, who trace their beginnings to the ancient Mayans. Husky, gun-toting Gertrude Duby, a Swiss explorer, visited the Lacandones in Chiapas, returned to Mexico City last week with many a tale about them...
Independent Society members worry little about practical jokers. But last week an apocryphal tale of a joke on the Independents was causing chuckles on Manhattan's art-conscious 57th Street. According to the story, two wags put a paintbrush in the hands of an intelligent child of two, tried to enter the result in the Independent show. The painting was rejected. Reason: too academic...
...left are Mr. & Mrs. Ellsworth Wisecarver. Elaine Monfredi, unmarried 21-year-old mother of two, eloped last week from Los Angeles with "Sonny" Wisecarver, 14. To some, theirs was a tawdry tabloid tale, distasteful and easily dismissed. But others could not keep from wondering about the kind of American life which had produced the ideals of marital felicity they voiced. Said she: "Sonny is an ideal husband, the kind every girl wants to have. He is kind and considerate and doesn't believe in hitting women." Said he: "I think Elaine's the kind of wife I want...