yarn-spinning
- s inclined to tell long and involved stories (often of incredible happenings)
- When not yarn-spinning, salty William McFee writes a weekly column in the New York Sun on shipping, does considerable puttering around his Westport, Conn, home.
- Opening this week, Shattered Glass depicts the downfall of yarn-spinning New Republic staff writer STEPHEN GLASS, left, who fabricated sources.
- He also adopted a Spanish lady and married his exquisite sister to a gypsymanand all to the pleasant rhythm of horse-racing, yarn-spinning, and the distant crash of waves.