Word: caracul
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...Miss Britton's claims against President Harding. After the first day Elizabeth Ann was sent out of the court room. Later Judge Killits barred the public and the press lest the evidence "corrupt public morals." Miss Britton, calm and demure, wearing a white blouse, brown skirt and caracul coat, sat very still while Grant Mouser, defense attorney, branded her tale as false and read chapter after chapter from the two books to prove it. Once Miss Britton passed a handkerchief over her face when Lawyer Mouser, his grey hair disheveled with excitement charged that she had neglected utterly...
...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...