Word: fur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colored Cats. Long and learned reports were read upon the inheritance of fur color in cats. A mysterious story had got abroad that zoological gardens, cat clubs, museums were anxious to obtain specimens of three-colored cats, such as the rare tortoiseshell, black and yellow hybrid. Result: floods of letters from people with tricolored felines, many ingeniously complicated breeding experiments...
With the laborer's silk shirts and automobiles, and the stenographers' fur coats and silk stockings, business men as well as moralists have been duly impressed in recent years. Unlike most moralists, however, business men have been pleased at these signs of the time, taking them as indications of a constantly rising standard of living and an expanding domestic market for merchandise...
...peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw. He does not spare expense. There is a notable scene wherein members of the chorus parade in a fur shop, clad in robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose; good syncopation by the McCarthy sisters; terrible singing by Gordon Dooley; two blackamorons, Miller and Lyles, who ably support the hypothesis that a real Negro can be funny on the stage...
...enrolled 230,000 families. Although this figure (if correct) is but a small part of the 9,000,000 individuals who are more or less dependent upon hunting, it was estimated to represent nearly a third of the several million Russians whose lives are spent in the chase. Russian fur-getting thus takes its place as one of the organized occupations in the world. The organization is less than two years...
...same time, it was announced that Russian fur and game exports last year amounted to $75,000,000-second only to grain. And it was pointed out that sable was worth more than its weight in gold: 36 pounds of gold are worth 21,000 gold rubles, whereas 36 pounds of sable (180 skins) are worth 22,500 gold rubles...