Word: fur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paris fashions, now interesting the women of the world, include some novel effects. In general embroidered materials and fur trimmings are à la mode...
Gold brocade and gold embroidery are much in evidence. Bright colors and fur hems are also in vogue...
Lecointe climbed for an hour and twenty minutes in a Nieuport-Delace plane with Hispano motor 454. It took him 35 minutes to coast back to Earth. He wore electric-heated fur clothing, breathed from an oxygen bottle above 5,000 meters, used benzol fuel for the first 6,000 meters and above that gasoline. His thermometer broke at 40° below zero, Fahrenheit, and a broken oxygen bottle robbed him of one or two thousand meters more. He said: "If the weather's fair I may try it again...
...anonymous bootlegging brewers. They offered him $360,000 a week if he would turn his back while they flooded the cities of the Central Atlantic states with beer from an anonymous "brewery city." He cunningly fed the hopes of the bootleggers. He accepted $25,000 in advance bribes, a fur overcoat and an automobile of anonymous make (specifically not a Rolls-Royce). He allowed himself to be taken on a three-day party to Atlantic City and elsewhere while the bootleggers recklessly dissipated "grands" ($1,000 bills). He had them show him where their contraband was hidden. Under his encouragement...
Firpo pronounces his name "Fear-po" and not " Fur-po "?as it comes most naturally to the North American tongue...