Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old harbor yacht called the Sirocco. Remorseful, but liking her low, raking lines, he decided to sail her 3,000 miles to New Guinea. All for it were three footloose companions. Setting a distinct highwater mark in personable, salty entertainment, Beam Ends is Errol Flynn's yarn of the voyage that followed...
Largest for any month in history except June 1933 and January 1929 was the consumption of raw cotton in October (646,000 bales). Yarn mills in the rayon trade have been at capacity for more than a year. In woolens, unfilled orders for men's wear goods have doubled since September, with prices...
...Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could enter. Last week Samuel Fleisher's Olympics were simultaneously taken up by two good businessmen: President George Howard Johnson...
Time begins to move more swiftly and the Wife of Bath is called upon to spin a yarn. She begins with a will; her argument runs upon the necessity of according to the wife the "souverainetee" in marriage. A pretty parable attests her point...
...into Bismarck, N. Dak. in the course of its travels through the drought area, it also rolled into a story which brought nationwide attention to a smalltown newspaper. Aboard the Presidential Pullmans were placed scores of copies of the Fargo (N. Dak.) Forum, whose front page displayed a strange yarn. Because a corps of the nation's nimblest newshawks were also on the train, Republican editors throughout the land were soon rubbing their hands over a dispatch which, on quick reading, seemed to convict the New Deal's cherished Resettlement Administration of photographic fakery and bad faith...