The stems of the lawyer vine (Flagellaria indica), buz or buzi (W.), boz (E.), are used in house-building, tying fences, etc.

Her grandmother, Alice Merryman, who died two years ago at the age of 100, was a quilter and practitioner of corn shuckery, the art of weaving corn husks into brooms, baskets, benches and other objects, including dolls.

Turns out Betsy Ross is the biggest lie your kindergarten teacher ever told you (except that Bubbles the class gerbil was moving to a farm upstate).

Bastards catch, reflect and secure the “sympathy of crowds” quicker than any other class of human beings demarcatable as a class.