Word: chinchilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Department of Agriculture has many vexing problems. Last week it had a stopper: a chinchilla with "the slobbers." Its front teeth had grown so long that it could not eat. Agriculture experts did what they could, but the sick chinchilla had slobbered too long; it died of malnutrition...
...appeal was the first of its kind, but Agriculture was prepared for more: chinchilla breeding in the U.S. is growing by hops and scurries. Some 2,000 U.S. breeders now own about 30,000 chinchillas. A Manhattan company advertises (and presumably sells) mated pairs for $1,500. So valuable are chinchillas that few except the sick or sterile are killed for their down-soft pelts. Breeders find it more profitable to sell them...
Hedy Lamarr lost $19,000 worth of warmth and beauty to burglars who called while she was out. Among the missing: a chinchilla coat ($5,000), her engagement ring ($12,000). Hedy bought...
Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, wife No. 5 of marrying DeWolf Hopper's six, hopped to Manhattan for the opera opening, appeared in a chinchilla coat which she boasted was the only one in Hollywood-except for 88-year-old Lady (Elsie de Wolfe) Mendl's. She declared she would never marry again, explained why: "What I attract is too young. What I should attract...
...Lord & Taylor bought full-page ads, burbled: "Tonight-fabulous word once more. Now that we're dressing for it . . . once more." In San Francisco, Columnist Lucius Beebe applauded "the prevalence of opera hats and white ties" in the cream-&-gold opera house, a "lavish frame for chichi and chinchilla...