Word: yarns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...president of Jantzen Knitting Mills Inc., Zehntbauer has probably done more than any other man to take the female form out of billowing bathing dresses and bloomers and encase it in a tight suit. But Zehntbauer's suits have rarely gone to extremes; with hidden tricks and elastic yarn, they have been designed to help the female form as much as reveal it. By thus keeping his suits "conservative," he has a firm grip on an estimated 25% of the U.S. market...
Collins, a onetime British Intelligence agent himself, had no trouble punching holes in the fabulous yarn. From R.C.A.F. records and scrapbooks of ex-R.C.A.F. officers, he found out that DuPre had never been in France during the war. He had spent a total of 13 months with an intelligence unit in England, where he had been a flight lieutenant. But at about the time the Gestapo was supposed to be torturing him, DuPre was safely back in Canada. His evidence in hand, Reporter Collins went to DuPre, cagily asked him about some fictitious "old friends" Collins said he remembered...
...covered wagon, pointed West." Both had escaped the fact: Joaquin (pronounced Wah-Keen) was actually, born in bed on a farm near Liberty, Ind. in 1837, and never climbed aboard a covered wagon till he was a strapping six-footer of 14. Nonetheless, it was a strangely modest yarn for Miller, who spent a lifetime stretching the truth about himself until it snapped. Famed on two continents at the turn of the century as the "Poet of the Sierras," and touted by critics of the day as the peer of Byron, Browning and Whitman, Miller has undergone a near-total...
Evidently the long-winded yarn has been a feature of Procter & Gamble advertising for some time. I have a full page verse narrative (154 lines of rhymed couplets) telling the story of Ivory Soap for readers of a juvenile magazine back...
...loudly-heralded UPA adaptation. On the same bill is the loudly-heralded UPA adaptation nof Edgar Allen Poe's "The tell-tale Heart." Imaginatively interpreted in a sort of restrained surrealism, it is a delight to the eye, but fails to capture the terror and suspense of the original yarn...