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Word: yarns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 8, 1944 | 5/8/1944 | See Source »

Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn about two sweet old ladies who flavor their wine with a wee drop of poison (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: One Pleasure Remains | 1/17/1944 | See Source »

Arsenic and Old Lace. Hilarious horror yarn of two old ladies' poisonings that are most playgoers' meat (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Dec. 20, 1943 | 12/20/1943 | See Source »

...shrewdly plotted blend of detection and intrigue, and a thick cut above the average mystery yarn in content and writing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mysteries in November | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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