Word: bearskinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...London hostesses. He told the ladies that his favorite dish was pemmican, but at one party when his own verse sent him rolling on the floor in frenzy, he nibbled aristocratic ankles in order of rank-duchess, marchioness, countess and lady. He took to appearing in a bearskin, squatting on the floor and chanting gibberish "Indian songs my mother taught me in the cradle." As the royalties poured in, he began mouthing cloudy dicta, e.g., "Genius works night and day and the antipodes do not affect it." Privately he admitted, "I'm damned if I could tell the difference...
Stevenson felt the need of a rest. He spent most of the daylight hours loafing on the lodge's flagstone patio, wandered only occasionally down to Lake Minocqua, 70 yds. away, for a little halfhearted casting. Evenings he lolled in the bearskin-draped living room before a fieldstone fireplace big enough to take 7-ft. logs, which were hauled automatically from the basement at the touch of a button. He went to bed at 9:30 every night to sleep under the stars, seen through the shatterproof glass roof of his bedroom...
...utensils. Knowles came back with the skin of a bear he claimed to have trapped in a pit, wore it through Boston's streets before one of the biggest crowds in the city's history. When jeering Hearstmen claimed to have found a bullet hole in the bearskin, Knowles went back to Maine, and in front of witnesses clubbed to death a New Brunswick bear which had been brought down in a cage and released...
...people. He has already inspired their loyalty and a certain affection. Among the crowds that jammed the streets at the end of his big day last week, a motherly Belgian woman watched the new King pass behind a prancing escort of mounted gendarmes in gleaming boots and top-heavy bearskin busbies. "Ah, le pauvre petit," she murmured. "All alone in his big auto...
...were going to a 1900 frolic at a seaside resort. The result: U.S. Ambassador David Bruce came as a valet de chambre, with Mrs. Bruce turned out as a lady's maid; Baron Alain de Rothschild played a bearded sea captain; Couturier Jacques Fath slipped into a simple bearskin creation, to match the gypsy getup of his pretty blonde wife, who is his favorite model...