Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...
Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn about two sweet old ladies who flavor their wine with a wee drop of poison (TIME...
...teachers, unable to make both ends meet, have gone into business on the side. One professor helps his wife run a restaurant; another sells typewriter ribbons and razor blades. The more adventurous speculate in cotton yarn, dyes and other articles of value...
Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn of two old ladies' poisonings that are most playgoers' meat (TIME...
...shrewdly plotted blend of detection and intrigue, and a thick cut above the average mystery yarn in content and writing...