Word: purlings
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...husky man inan apron (Mr. Grant) is always good for a laugh. When he is surrounded by knitting matrons who gravely inform him that purl is spelt pee-yew, the appeal is irresistible...
Code. In Seattle, police and U.S. agents tried and tried to decode the notations in an arrested woman's little black book: "K 1, P 2, CO 8, K 5 . . ." finally quizzed her, learned the meaning: "Knit one, purl two, cast on eight, knit five...
Together with Beetheven's "Missa Solemnis," sounds of "knit one, purl two," can be heard around Glee Club haunts these days as the singers open fire on Hitler with a "knit sweators for Britain" campaign...
...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 red knitted cap) by an umbilical cord of red corrugated rubber balloons...
Mozart: Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra (Ferdinand Oubradous, with orchestra conducted by Eugene Bigot; Victor: 4 sides). Mozart's tunes let Bassoonist Oubradous purl sweetly as well as boop for a laugh...