Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without the obligation of final examinations. We did no homework and the word was not in use with us. We studied our lessons in school study hours. If Author Putnam had known better the ways of Oakland public schools in the '80s, he might have invented a yarn less easy to refute...
...Between interruptions, he droned on until 6:50 p.m. Idaho's Glen Taylor, the Singing Cowboy, took the stage. He went into a routine of detailed statistical exposition, interspersed with sallies at Senators, the price of autos and the difficulties of living in a truck. He told a yarn about a Communist he worked with in a war plant in 1944. It took about 500 words and several minutes for Taylor to reach the point: ''The Communist would go around talking to everybody, saying that he was for Bricker for President. He said...
Principle attraction of the program now at the U.T. is its variety. "The Lost Honeymoon" comes like a cool, damp cloth on the audience's collective forchead after the emotional tropics of "Bedelia." It's a yarn about a guy who marries when he's in a state of amnesia (a device that is becoming about as common as disguise in Italian opera), and learns that his wife is arriving from England on the eve of his marriage to another girl. Franchot Tone's quiet mugging carries the frail little piece, which includes a number of very, very funny scenes...
...This yarn, repeated at a businessmen's luncheon early this year, put an idea in the heads of three officials of the Catholic War Veterans. They reasoned that the last place anyone would look for Communists would be within the Roman Catholic fold.* They decided that they had better start looking...
Rife as it is with florid incident and outrageous coincidence, this yarn is hardly credible on a purely "realistic" basis. But it has about it a great deal of the strange and thrilling logic of a fairy tale, a poem or a dream. It is even an allegory though not a rigid...