Word: ferreter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These rumbling threats from NRA headquarters were matched in spirit by the organizing of 15,000 women to be turned loose on the land as NRA crusaders. In charge of this female army to "ferret out drones" was Miss Mary Hughes, Louisville, Ky. promoter. Already complaints were reaching General Johnson of the terrifying effects of mass emotion stirred up in small towns by impassioned NRA crusaders. The campaign was rapidly passing from a volunteer to a conscription basis...
...could remember the faint scent of sachet. A Junior Usher can muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping him in an aura of honeyed words. He could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle gold on some wisp of hair. And he had felt deliciously sad about himself and these tall willowy dancing girls who would soon be frowsy and decrepit. These fine lads going out late into the world to be broken slowly on the wheel...
Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
...genius is 19-year-old Charles de Ravenne, a retired child actor and self-taught painter. Artist de Ravenne was once described by the now defunct Hollywood Highlights as "a slight youngster with the 'artiste' expressed in every characteristic. His deep, ferret-black eyes look through you in search of what it is that combines to make you appear as you do. His broad understanding smile bespeaks an appreciation of you and God and nature. His long slinky fingers were made to push a brush...
...University was hunting six precocious, prodigious students, aged from 13 to 15, whom he would admit as freshmen next September (TIME, Feb. 22). President Scott cited a number of wunderkinder whom he would like to see matched under modern conditions. He announced he would get high school superintendents to ferret them out. But much to everybody's surprise it took no ferreting. By last week President Scott had received 100 letters of application, from every State in the land...