Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...DEATH SHIP - B. Traven - Knopf ($2.50). Yarn of a U. S. sailor on a gun runner; hard-boiled but a little overripe...
...House. Such is the biography of Scamper, as related for children by President Roosevelt's only daughter. For the onetime assistant editor (Babies: Just Babies). broadcaster (Best & Co.), and magazine contributor (Liberty and Cosmopolitan), the White House and its extroverted occupants have provided a lively background for her yarn. Easy to identify are Mrs. Ball's children Anna Eleanor ("Sistie") and Curtis ("Buzzie") who show a mute and dazzled Scamper the White House foyer, the State dining room, the grand stairway, the Presidential study. No pedagog, Mrs. Dall imparts to her readers only as much of Washington...
...SIGHT OF EDEN-Roger Vercel- Harconrt, Brace ($2.50). First-rate yarn about Breton cod-fishermen off the Greenland coast. A French prize novel that for once was well worth translating; with little pictures by Rockwell Kent...
...WOOING, & ON THE ROCKS-George Bernard Shaw-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). The three latest plays of the Old Maestro. MOSTLY CANALLERS-Walter D. Edmonds-Little, Brown ($2.50). Short stories by an author whose claim to the Erie Canal is undisputed. FOOLS RUSH IN-Anne Green-Dutton ($2.50). Another frothily innocuous yarn by the sister of a morbidly good writer. THE MAKING OF AMERICANS-Gertrude Stein-Harcourt, Brace ($3). First U. S. edition (abridged) of Gertrude Stein's unreadable magnum opus...
...your other assertions. I first heard of the Berlin announcement you mentioned when reporters of New York newspapers asked me about it a few days ago. I told them that I knew nothing about it. I am still waiting for an explanation of the origin of so silly a yarn...