Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayo now was objecting. Believing he had another sock medical yarn, Editor Ruppel replied: "The Times appreciated the feeling expressed by Dr. W. J. Mayo in the telegram reproduced above. But the editors believe the Mayo Clinic is an institution in which all Americans and most citizens of the civilized world have a vital interest...
Pleased with this yarn, Reporter Paine was further tickled when letters from hopeful investors asking M. Grantaire's address began to flood the Press office. Soon Mr. Paine grew accustomed to seeing his fabulous tale reprinted in unsophisticated journals under the heading "Scientific Notes" or "Nuggets of Fact." Back from the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Uprising, working on the New York Herald, Spiderman Paine had the fabrication brought to his attention again in 1902 when a plagiarist tried to sell it to him for publication in the Herald. Soon thereafter, Reporter Paine gave up newspaper work...
Last week, the hoary hoax raised its head once more, in highly respectable surroundings, when readers of the June Atlantic Monthly spied the yarn as the leading article in the "Contributors' Club" department. The anonymous Atlantic contributor, borrowing many a phrase from the 40-year-old original, credited the spider farm to "my grandfather." Like all effective hoaxes, the spider story survived its creator. Ralph D. Paine died in 1925. His son and namesake is Business Editor of TIME...
BEAT TO QUARTERS-C. S. Forester- Little, Brown ($2.50). Expert sea yarn in which an English frigate fights it out with a 50-gun Spanish warship on a strange mission to South America in Napoleon...
...salvage what had been the No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven into such things as sweaters, girdles, slipcovers...