Word: yarns
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...unwitting incest occurred after he solved the riddle of the Sphinx. Among the Algonquin and Iroquois tribes, there is a legend of brother-and-sister love in which riddles are posed by talking owls. In a 1967 essay, Burgess marvels at this transcultural yoking. In MF, the old Algonquin yarn is the mother of one of his richest comic inventions...
...ominous: The Sherlock Holmes sleuth who stalks, magnifying glass in hand, the unctuous undertaker who speaks of "floral tributes," the cool-as-ice nurse who hides a whopping sex drive. With characters such as these, each occupationally linked to death, but in funny, obsessive ways, Orton spins a yarn about stolen money which provides the perfect set-up for an irreverent travesty on death, the dead and our own pomposity...
...catgut substitute, which is trade-named Dexon, chemists tested 225 synthetic compounds before they hit upon polyglycolic acid, a polymer or long-chain molecule that is chemically compatible with the human body. They spent four years taming the polymer and learning how to braid it into a multiple-strand yarn of suture size...
...many knots in wool yarn as you have warts, place the yarn under a rock, by the time the yarn rots away, so do your warts...
...then failed to win her hand. That is how the world remembers him: an unsuccessful suitor, elegant and somehow attenuated. Fifteen years later, exGroup Captain and Royal Equerry Peter Townsend finds a role more comfortable for a dashing fighter pilot as the author of a real-life adventure yarn...