Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime week and produced some deft social comment. Reported the New York Journal-American's Cholly Knickerbocker:*". . . the former Duchess of Marlborough wasn't there. . . . The always impeccably clad Mrs. Harrison Williams arrived at the showing via her dainty 'tootsies.' . . . Almost everyone had an amusing tale of adventures encountered on busses, taxis and even subways...
Dale's Tale. In Richmond Ind., the parents of Dale Allen Hawley, aviation machinist's mate, received a letter from him : "After leaving where we were before we left for here, not knowing we were coming here from there, we couldn't tell whether we had arrived here or not. . . .The weather here is just as it always is at this season. The people are just like they look. I had better close now before I give too much valuable military information...
Whale's Tale. In Weekapaug, R.I., a dead whale drifted ashore. After calling the Coast Guard (but the whale did not interfere with navigation), the Army (but the whale was not an invasion), town fathers classed the carcass as refuse, called their garbage collector...
...Tale from the Hills. In one corner of India the scene was different. TIME Correspondent William Fisher cabled this report from New Delhi...
...film tells the desultory tale of a dancer (Bill Robinson), from the moment after World War I when he marches up Broadway to the strains of Jim Europe's wonderful band, to the moment after Pearl Harbor when a proud singer (Lena Horne) finally sees it his way and they face the stentorian marriage blessing of Cab Calloway. A great many types of Negro entertainment are represented: some good, some not so good...