Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appreciation of the "Song of Bernadette" does not depend on religious belief or orthodoxy; it is an emotionally stirring tale of faith and sacrifice...
...Captain told a thrilling tale of secret departure from Yugoslavia with two U.S. Army officers who were with him at Chetnik headquarters. But neither he nor his unnamed companions were allowed to tell their full stories...
...Fairy Tale. Elizabeth was only a few minutes old when a black-coated, stripe-trousered symbol of British officialdom thrust itself upon her. On April 21, 1926, Home Secretary Sir William Joynson-Hicks peered anxiously into her red, squally face, went away to affirm that she had been born. Her life, not exactly woeful, has been like that ever since...
...grandmother Queen Mary, and her gentle, Scottish-born mother Queen Elizabeth, fell the task of curbing her. While others crammed her mind with languages, history and rules of statecraft, they had to strip her spirit of every inclination to caprice. The maternal admonition ran: "You are not a fairy-tale princess, but a real...
...Goodbye (by George Seaton; produced by John Golden) tries to perk up a tale of mousy living people by introducing some lively dead ones. The spirits are a just-dead, good-natured New England paterfamilias (Harry Carey) and his long-dead, thick-brogued, high cockalorum of a father (J. Pat O'Malley). They scuttle, garrulous and unobserved, about the parlor watching the effect of death on the household, bemoaning their earthly shortcomings, trying by spectral ruses to straighten out the mess in which the dead man left his affairs...