Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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THREE DIED BESIDE THE MARBLE POOL -Carl M. Chapin-Crime Club ($2). Well-written, closely reasoned yarn about a deaf hero's exploits in untangling a skein of gory complexities with the aid of teletype and microphone...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
...OARSMAn FOR FOUR YEARS UNDER HIS DIRECTION AND A FRIEND FOR ALL THE YEARS SINCE, I WANT TO BRAND THAT YARN AS APOCRYPHAL, UNTRUE, UNCHARACTERISTIC AND HIGHLY DEFAMATORY TO A DISTINGUISHED MASTER OF GOOD ENGLISH, A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT-ELECT AND A GENTLEMAN, DOCTOR SPAETH NEVER LACKED FOR FAR MORE EFFECTIV WORDS THAN THE DREGS OF SPEECH WHICH ARE CHARACTERISTIC OF TWO-HUNDRED-WORD ILLITERATES. THE STUFF JUST DOES NOT RING TRUE. STEWART M. ROBINSON...
...news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there is no cable line in the little village. . . . There are no telephones." Pictures of the sextuplets Jean-Pierre, Jean-Paul, Jean-Marc, Jean-Luc, Jean-Marie and Jean-Claude Vicogne were published to clinch the yarn's authenticity...
...Boegner last week confessed that these sensations were no more authentic than the hoaxes annually perpetrated in the April Fool number of German Illustritre Zeitung (TIME, April 23, 1934). According to Vu, the Referee's gullible and light-fingered editors were not the only dupes of the sextuplet yarn, which had been illustrated with six views of the same infant. To an inquiring U. S. doctor, Vu solemnly replied that the six little boys now had a sister, born three months after the multiple delivery...