Word: caracul
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...half the conquered world, and seat of Tamburlaine news came last week of things deep stirring in the heart of Asia. Bleak Soviets rule today, instead of Tamburlaine, but even so the men of Samarkand still sip iced honey as of old, still deal in that exquisite lambskin, caracul, worth sometimes ?500 ($2430) a hide and still transship eight hundred million pounds of Chinese tea each year to Russia. The men of Samarkand were occupied last week in quite the good old way. The women were causing trouble...
...President, going to his office the day before Christmas, inspected the bundles piled up for him. Some few interested him. In spite of "Don't Open Until Christmas," he ripped them open and peeped. Mrs. Coolidge received for Christmas a fur coat made of caracul from Austria, platinum fox from Russia. The Fur Manufacturers and Merchants Association was the donor. Colonel John C. Coolidge at Plymouth, Vt., received a box of Christmas edibles from the White House, not to mention about 50 Christmas cards from friends...