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Word: yarn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Standard staff. A spectacular railroad wreck had, so to speak, fallen in Stone's lap. The only newsman in miles, he strung thousands of words together while the blazing cars of the unlucky train made the night lurid in Hellgate canyon near Missoula. He filed the yarn on the wire. Discovered next day that the Standard office had burned to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 17, 1931 | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

...Halifax, N. S. the rum-running Josephine K., whose captain was killed by U. S. gunfire last winter off New York, arrived with her bow and stern staved in and a yarn of deliberately ramming a U. S. Coast Guard vessel in revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Week | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...dressed up "and left ashore at different points of the African coast as emissaries of trade and, presumably, of Christian missionary enterprise: women, it was reasonably argued, being less likely than men to be slain by savage tribes." From this historical thread Author Baptist has spun a highly colored yarn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cat's-Paws | 7/27/1931 | See Source »

Author Daniel-Rops thinks Robert Balfour Stevenson did more than spin a yarn and preach a sermon when he wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He thinks Stevenson indicated a psychological truth which he falsified into melodrama. The split personalities in these four stories are due not to drugs but to circumstance; the stories are dramatic but no fairy tales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Split Personality | 7/6/1931 | See Source »

Henry Kitchell Webster is one of the minority of U. S. mystery writers who tells a wild yarn so plainly and well you keep forgetting its improbabilities. Though Webster has written mystery stories without a single killing, if you take murders for insomnia The Man with the Scarred Hand should give you a night's repose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Yarn, Well-Spun | 2/23/1931 | See Source »

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