Word: fur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...Fur Coat...
...Coat that fellow is wearing. No, it is not His Own. What does that matter? It might as well be. It is his Roommate's. There are Nine of them, All Told, who room together. His roommate the one who Bought the fur coat, I mean, felt he Had to have it to Keep Up with Everyone Else. Now it is All he can Do to keep up with the Coat. He didn't Mind buying that Car to live up to the coat, but it does seem a shame that he can never get Coat and Car Together...
...dears must be in stiff collars, boiled shirts, dragging trousers, "kidney-exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers. The desideratum suggests nothing so much as a musical comedy's presentation of a street scene in Russia...
From the Argentine came news of a new mammal, the kangarfox, with a body like a kangaroo, a cat's head, the fur of a fox and "the soft, melancholy eyes of a Jersey cow." It climbs like a squirrel, dives like an otter, is amphibious, nocturnal, omnivorous. Said The Boston Transcript, referring to the man who reported this quaint creature: "Weaker men, men with lower standards of truth, might have tried to fob you off with a cock and bull story of how the kangarfox holds the Argentinian record for quick typewriting and is the best polo player...