Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abdomen. Inside, homemade in pink and red, were models of all the organs involved in childbirth. The pelvic cavity was an oval fruit basket. The walls of the box, as well as the pelvis, were covered with pink silk, imitating the peritoneum, glistening lining of the abdomen. Red yarn, knitted by Dr. Van Hoosen herself, showed the pattern of abdominal muscles, Fallopian tubes, ovaries. The mouth of the uterus was knitted in a purl stitch, the body in plain stitch. Inside the womb was a rubber doll, encased in a bag of Cellophane, attached to the placenta (a dark...
City for Conquest (Warner). With the help of Thornton Wilder, Hollywood gratefully learned a new way to spin a yarn. In Our Town, cinematized last spring, wise-eyed Frank Craven appeared on the screen as a rustic sage drawling philosophic comments on the passing events...
...fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...
...bought half-a-dozen, then contracted for the entire production for five years. Though she could make two bedspreads a day, Catherine's two hands could not keep up with the demand. She began to trace her designs on cloth, carry the marked cloth and a hank of yarn around to neighboring farm wives who would do the "tufting" for so much per spread. Every few days she would set out in a mule cart to run the circuit of her tufters...
...first she unraveled cotton yarn herself, wound it on corncobs; later a nearby thread mill made it for her. Her backyard was full of bedspreads bleaching in the sun. On each one she made about $1.75 less the cost of materials...