Word: ferrets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page "Public Circular No. 4" and its rainbow-colored forms made the income tax's Form 1040A look as simple as a blank check. Despite high penalties for not filing -$10,000 fine or ten years in jail-there was no indication of how the Government hoped to ferret out non-English-reading refugees, warehousemen, etc. who fail to file...
...attended childbearing and her feet were flat and encased in low tennis shoes . . . with the laces carelessly flapping around her bare dirt-stained ankles. . . ." The children were Hub, Virginia ("Virginia ain't what you'd call a godly girl," said Paw), Gwendolin and Eugenia (who had "ferret-like eyes"), Harold and McKinley, Jutland, Buddy (who had a withered leg and a knack for drawing) and Reno (pro nounced Rinno). To Reno, their first born, Paw & Maw proudly referred as their "monstous curosity." He was 20 years old, six feet two inches tall, weighed less than 50 pounds...
Died. John Ford, 79, ferret of literary obscenity, longtime (1906-1932) New York Supreme Court Justice; in Manhattan. He founded the Clean Books League...
Oslo's two biggest buildings, the Oddfellow Building* and the Corn Monopoly Building, last week were getting new tenants, busy German bureaucrats and the men of the Gestapo. On hand for the move was ferret-faced Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler himself, on a flying inspection trip from Germany. Thus, after a year, ended an ignoble experiment-the fumble-footed attempt of Major Vidkun Quisling to govern the country he betrayed...
Moved to investigate his new-found property and ferret out the union leaders who hanged him, dyspeptic J. P. disguises himself as a clerk in his shoe department. He finds out a lot he never knew about people who have to work for a living. A pompous section manager (Edmund Gwenn) rules him with acidulous tyranny. A comely young clerk, Mary Jones (Jean Arthur), tries to teach him the tricks of the trade, lends him 50? when she interprets his remark about never eating lunch to mean that he is broke...