Word: yarning
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...endearing faculty of telling tall tales. Last week Author Thome's third book made the resemblance seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well be heard from in box-office terms...
...furnished the U. S. Press with its first convincing Spy Story in many a moon. In spite of the fact that the spy's accomplice was not a beautiful girl but, according to U. S. Attorney Peirson Hall of Los Angeles, a slender, fresh-faced young man, the yarn of the disloyal ex-sailor and the Japanese naval officer made bang-up copy...
Meanwhile Fleet Street editors scoffed at the cock & bull yarn some reporters had telephoned in. They said they had talked to an Irishman who said he had talked to a woman who said her little boy had been rescued from drowning in the duck pond of St. James's Park by a tall man in top hat and impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer...
Striving vainly to achieve a tone of gay sophistication, Author Caldwell succeeds only in belaboring the reader with a yarn undistinguished in conception, inept in execution...
Jimmy was glad to see the Childses, delighted at the idea of being put into a book. In spare moments from his sheepherding, he spun them the yarn of his adventures. When Jimmy came to Patagonia, in 1892, it had been an even wilder land. In Tierra del Fuego, where he went first as a herder, the Indians were being hunted and killed like wild animals. Naked Indian women were kept tethered outside the herders' tents until their pregnancy made them a nuisance. There was little law but the gauchos' own. Jimmy liked the life...