Word: angora
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...social standing of one's family hardly mattered, but behavior did," she says, neatly listing all those traits (such as wearing angora collars) which marked a girl as "irretrievably stupid...
Pick Your Operation. Brinkley called his operation a graft. It was. of course, merely a swindle. But goat glands caught on. There were difficulties at first; it developed that glands from Angora goats gave patients an enduring stench, so stinkless Toggenberg goats were used. Brinkley showed flair approaching genius by allowing his suckers to choose their own goats, much in the manner, as the author observes, as one could pick his own lobster at a Maine shore restaurant. Later, the goat doctor refined his pitch: "Operations performed according to your selection; you pay only for what you choose." The suckers...
Suddenly one of her gloves, its short fingers outlined in yellow angora, fell to the floor. All Lucius had to do was stretch down and touch it, but Miss Schroeder, moving with a speed unnatural to her bulk, quickly retrieved it. And soon, after a moment of stillness, he heard a quiet, but unmistakable, "Oh!," and he knew it had really been worth...
...about taking dancing lessons, and now he can be seen dining out and piloting his 31-year-old wife Valerie across dance floors. "His brow so grim and his mouth so prim" radiate such dimpled benevolence that one crusty old friend likens the new Eliot to "an enormous, overstuffed Angora...
...Give the President power to cut tariff rates in half on goods that are now virtually excluded from the U.S. market (e.g., angora rabbit yarn, nail clippers), a measure designed to help open new markets for U.S. exports as well as imports...