Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impulsive bobbings in & out of the President's office may seem incorrigibly undignified to her husband, but they make good copy. From her Monday press conferences, which she innovated, comes many a little human interest yarn. Fortnight ago she started another of her countless crusades, this time against poisonous cosmetics. In the Department of Agriculture's "chamber of horrors" she had discovered two photographs of a horribly blinded victim of "Lash Lure." Showing them to the ladies of the Press, she pressed the pictures to her breast and exclaimed: "I cannot bear to look at them...
...inhabitant, joining the crowd around the stove at the village store one nipping winter day, asserts that he can remember much colder weather, to prove it tells a Munchausenish yarn about an all-night fight culminating in a double murder. One of the skeptics is still unconvinced...
...rear silk worms. It has 58 silk filatures with 20,000 reeling basins at each of which a girl carefully unwinds cocoons, and it has three spun-silk mills. Its annual output is nearly 100,000 bales of raw silk and 1,000,000 lb. of spun silk yarn-nearly one-sixth of Japan's total output...
...balls are absolutely identical with the exception of the cover. The centre, the yarn, the winding, is exactly the same for both balls. When, however, the cover is put on, the regular type of cover is furnished for the American League, but for the National League a little thicker horsehide is used which necessitates a heavier thread in sewing. This change was made at the request of the National League several years ago and at that time it was publicly announced. There has never been any secrecy. Every one of these balls is made with infinite care to effect perfect...
...Stout is far from being the D. H. Lawrence of the U. S., notwithstanding the blurb on his latest book, but Forest Fire is an up-to-date, readable Western yarn. Though it gets tragic at the end for no good reason, by & large it stays true to its cheerful nature...