Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wobbly stands and all. "If some of those Mexican henchmen didn't think you were hustling to their satisfaction," said Mickey, "they'd sidle up to you and stick a gun in your ribs. . . . It just scared the hell out of me." To hear Mickey tell his yarn, Mexican beisbol was fearsome: he said darkly that "they" opened his mail, tailed him with detectives. Then came the last straw: they made him play first base...
Born Yesterday. Amusing yarn about a big-shot racketeer who decides to have his dumb blonde educated and picks too good a teacher (TIME...
...tightening their belts to export, the British had boosted machinery exports to 123% of the May 1938 volume. The cotton yarn and textile industry, traditionally a big exporter, was well below the May 1938 volume. One reason: lack of machinery, some of it of the same type being exported. In coal, another mainstay of British exports, the picture was no better. Exports were only 369,757 tons v. 3,000,000 in an average month of 1938. Again the trouble was lack of machinery, antiquated methods, shortage of manpower. Moreover, unless slipping coal production could be boosted, the entire export...
...Littleboro, Lancashire, the countryside tells a century of cotton history. There are the old cottages, where women used to hand out woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff...
Like "Double Indemnity" (also based on a Cain yarn), "Postman" involves the extra-curricular love affair of a married woman, the murder of the husband by wife and lover, and the net of justice that ensnares them. But where Barbara Stanwyck clearly was a woman powerless in the grip of passion, Lana Turner plays a peculiarly ill-defined character, driven in conflicting directions by muddled motives. Nor is Garfield, while more suitably cast, given a better organized role. The smaller parts are much neater; Cecil Kellaway as the husband and Hume Cronyn, as a lawyer who gets Miss Turner...