Sentence:  Enthusiastically , Americans have swept subliterary and bogus materials like Paul Bunyan <WSD>tales</WSD> , Abe Lincoln anecdotes and labor union songs up as true products of our American oral tradition . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program