Word: tale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world that Kostov had been hanged. It also made an extraordinary claim which it did not document; before the end, said the Ministry of Justice, Kostov had made a groveling plea for mercy and a "full confession." The late Traicho Kostov, who was in no position to deny the tale, was quoted as explaining that his defiant attitude in court had been due to "nervous agitation and the unhealthy ambition of an intellectual . . . The sentence is absolutely just and . . . necessary in the struggle against the Anglo-American imperialists." Bulgaria's people were not told of Kostov's execution...
...Manhattan's federal court, the perjury trial of Alger Hiss had progressed with a singular absence of melodrama. Whittaker Chambers spent seven days as a witness, much of the time under crossexamination, stepped down with both his testimony and his Buddha-like calm intact. His shocking tale was corroborated as before by his wife and a long list of Government witnesses. Voices were seldom raised; time and repetition had lent a curious matter-of-factness to an incredible affair...
...uniform. Last week Noel saw his chance. With the help of a sympathetic German fellow prisoner, he bought a ticket to Berlin, boarded a fast express at Leuna after the Russians had made their routine inspection and rode uninterrupted into Germany's British zone. His superiors accepted his tale and sent him to a hospital to fatten up. "I've been thinking about that girl," mused Private Moncaster bitterly last week. "Why didn't the Russians arrest her? I'm through with women...
...weeks as a woman outcast, Reporter Browning had skillfully told her phony, woeful tale to priest, to minister, in Salvation Army hostels and gospel missions, and had found charity everywhere. She had narrowly escaped being firmly placed in a home for unmarried mothers, was compelled to accept money from strangers (she sent it all back), had 19 offers of free lodging with meals, and scores of offers of help in finding work...
Veteran Movie Director Cecil B. DeMille, hailed as the film "pioneer of the year" at the tenth anniversary dinner in Manhattan of the Motion Picture Pioneers, told a tall tale of some painstaking work on his forthcoming Samson and Delilah. For ten years, he said, he followed molting peacocks around his 10,000-acre California ranch, collecting the 1,900 feathers which embellish one of the costumes worn in the film by Delilah (Hedy Lamorr...