Word: yarns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...getting, preserving and enjoying of all this cash between 1952 and 1967 provided comic books with some of their greatest characters and grandest adventures. The eleven vintage stories collected in this sumptuous volume, along with a new yarn and a signed, numbered lithograph, are strong evidence that Scrooge and his creator Carl Barks belong in the great mainstream of American folklore...
...Francis Cabot Lowell, a Boston merchant, created the first modern textile factory to combine yarn spinning and cloth weaving under one roof. He traveled to Britain to study established operations, took on some partners and raised $400,000 in venture capital from family and friends. Lowell then sold his cloth through a few large wholesale outlets in New England. He added to his profits by selling copies of the machines he developed to make the cloth. By 1817 his business had annual sales of more than $34,000, and Lowell paid his investors a dividend...
...case right out of Agatha Christie, a high-society saga with all the elements of mystery: a beautiful woman in a coma, an aristocratic second husband, suspicious stepchildren and a fabulous fortune. This is no storybook yarn but a true-life tale that has scandalized the gentry. The final chapter began to unfold last week in Newport, R.I., where jury selection was nearly completed in the trial of Claus von Bülow, 55. He is accused of attempting to murder his heiress wife Martha with injections of insulin, precipitating the coma in which she has languished for more than...
...devotes a few hours to rummaging for returnables in trash cans and parking lots; Adalbert ("Al") Politz, 56, of Bloomfield, Conn., made enough sorting through nearby Hartford's refuse last year to buy his son a Christmas present and give a handicapped friend $60 worth of knitting yarn. The Miller family of Portland, Ore., has found bottle collecting even more profitable. Foraging for Coke bottles along a state highway last February, they found 149 crisp $100 bills scattered by the road. When no one laid claim to the cash after six months, it was Miller time to the tune...
...Henry Miller, S.J. Perelman and Walt Whitman had holed up in a Michigan roadhouse to concoct a mystery yarn, the resulting melange of cosmic erotica, snappish humor and hirsute lyricism might resemble this send-up of the "tecs" by Poet and Novelist Jim Harrison (Farmer, Legends of the Fall). His mock hero, Johnny Lundgren, nicknamed Warlock, is a reluctant Swedish-American gumshoe who has been fired from his job as a foundation executive. He flees to the comforting semi-poverty of rural northern Michigan where irrelevance turns to comic Scandinavian angst. Trysts in his overheated Subaru prove difficult; his forays...