Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week's fairy tale: Once upon a time 250 guys asked for assignments and 250 guys got exactly what they wanted. . . Suggested recently: Wake list for men going on watch...
...ration coupons at all, and made a 2,000-mile border-to-border auto trip (Brownsville, Tex. to International Falls, Minn.). He used 123 gallons of bootlegged gas, bought extra ration coupons for 190 gallons besides. In the Oct. 2 issue of Collier's he told the whole tale...
...communiques told a now familiar tale: it was snail's progress by U.S., British, New Zealand, Canadian and Indian troops. They recorded the storming of a hill by cobelligerent Italians, who had been severely mauled in a first venture against their ex-allies (TIME, Dec. 20); for that success, General Clark sent congratulations. But most notable was the announcement that French soldiers were also in the line...
...tall tale about legendary Febold Feboldson, who solved the Indian food problem by blowing the water out of the ponds so that the ducks stuck in the mud. Febold also rid the Midwest of wailing coyotes by importing (from his friend Paul Bunyan) a hundred gross of whimpering whingdings (indescribably mournful creatures who made the coyotes die of grief...
Best story is Rudolph Umland's fantastic folk tale, Phantom Airships of the Nineties, about the great airship illusion in the corn belt. Airships were rarer than passenger pigeons when in 1890 Nebraskans first began to see mysterious lights in the night sky. Soon they saw airships flying "with the velocity of an eagle." One airship was 2,000 feet long, carried tons of dynamite to drop on the Spaniards in Cuba. Another (according to the Wilsonville Review), powered by a windmill, swept low enough for one of its crew to shout to fascinated Nebraskans a tantalizing summons: "Weiver...