Word: teller
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel, which in part seems to be based on the author's own experiences, is written with the sure touch of a skillful story-teller who deals with a theme he is fitted to handle with the unmistakable mark of sincerity. Although Mr. Gibbs has been living for some time in America, "Chances" is English to the last idiom of British slang. It belongs in the general category of novels that deal with the reserved, sensitive, pipe-smoking boys who were England's junior officers in France. Those readers who enjoy hearing about the boys "playing cricket" at the front...
...been called 47 different varieties of undesirable persons. Now let's have a standing vote-have I or have I not any sex appeal?" - Whopper-Teller Joan Lowell (Cradle of the Deep) before the St. Louis Rotary Club...
...direction by Von Sternberg is impressive as always. In the small use of conversation or rather the absence of it at times, the manner of unraveling the story becomes a matter of keen interest rather than a recitation by a story teller. The photography is excellent; the use of light and shadow of the vine shaded streets on the marching Foreign Legion being particularly effective...
...frowned on kinetic, scrub-brush-headed Augustine. Year ago he was driven from power. Month ago, interned by the government on an estate at Kroettingen as a menace to public safety he made an abortive effort to escape (TIME, Aug. 11). Fortnight ago Mme Waldemaras went to a fortune teller. The oracle, emerging from his trance, informed Mme Waldemaras that her husband would regain political power over the bodies of twelve persons. She went back to the internment farm and that night M & Mme Waldemaras drew up a little list. First on the list was Colonel Rusteika. Four others, according...
Died. Philip Shepheard Teller, 69, San Francisco merchant, successor to Meyer Lissner (died fortnight ago, TIME, Aug. 11) on the U. S. Shipping Board (1926-29), onetime chairman of California's Republican State Central Committee; after long illness, at Alameda. Calif...