Word: hymeneal
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...colorless fluids flow. The Romans did coin a name, but for the fluid only. They called it lympha, after a fancied resemblance to clear spring water. But nothing about the lymphatic system was clear then, or for another 2,000 years. Only now, says Tulane University's Physiologist Hymen S. Mayerson in a report to the American College of Surgeons, are the workings of the lymphatic system beginning to be understood. The body's second circulation system, he says, plays an essential role in keeping man alive and healthy by filtering gallons of fluid every day, transporting vital...
...TIME FOR SERGEANTS, by Mac Hymen (214 pp.; Random House; $2.95), is the comic saga of how the U.S. Air Force grabs a Georgia cracker and learns it has bit off more than it can chew. Will Stockdale is not mean, but too dark an eight ball for even a general to stand behind. He is drafted after a pitched battle on Tobacco Road and in the barracks blows doleful music on his mouth harp to the tune Mother Ain't Dead, She's Only Sleeping. Will's perceptive sergeant appoints him permanent latrine orderly. On inspection...
...Hymen Harvest," p. 23 of TIME, Aug. 10, is typically TIME-worthy...
...romantic Venice, the year's largest crop of illegitimate Italians is always born in March, thanks to the annual festive "Hymen Harvest" duly celebrated last week. For this occasion Il Duce's ban against kissing in public, which is punished with a fine of 10 lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice...
...Elis, OEnomaus by name, refused the hand of his fair daughter save to that gallant Greek youth who should beat him in a chariot-race. Suitor after suitor tried and failed, for OEnomaus was a skillful warrior--but at last and one must suspect with the help of Hymen--a young prince "from over sea", triumphed. That was Pelops...