Word: fur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vigils to get reconditioned typewriters for 99^, toasters, waffle irons and percolators (used) for 9^ each, a $500 Persian lamb coat for $15, reconditioned washing machines for $9. In nearby Alexandria a 1939 Plymouth went for 89^. A Mrs. E. M. Schott came from Youngstown, Ohio to buy two fur pieces, one a silver-blue mink scarf (price...
...morning Friday, the crowd at Zlotnick the Furrier's was so thick that a policeman was called. He ended up buying his wife a bargain fur coat ($39). At Hecht's, one of the biggest downtown department stores, an estimated 8,000 bargain hunters crammed in during the first 15 minutes after opening, driving the buyer in the kitchen furniture department right up on top of a dinette table...
When Jane Russell, Lana Turner, Joan Crawford, Jimmy Durante and Victor Mature failed to appear as witnesses at the trial of a Hollywood fashion designer charged with stealing a fur piece, the court lost its temper, said: "These Hollywood people ask the protection of the courts, but fail to appear when it doesn't suit their convenience. Who do they think they are? Movie people are no better than anyone else...
...John Bricker, whose seat Di Salle will seek, and who will be a hard man to beat, had some words of welcome: "When I announced my candidacy, I said that I hoped I might have a real candidate who would raise the issues of the New Deal-Fair Deal-Fur Deal . . . Mr. Di Salle meets these requirements . . . There is no question in my mind where the votes will go when the issues are decided." Did Di Salle think corruption would be an issue? "I think it will be," mused Mike, "but I don't think anyone will take...
...mother. With the help of the magic dove, Toto holds the cops hilariously at bay, gives the clamorous poor whatever they want. The wishes of the poor are funny, pathetic, always vulnerably human and sometimes as shabby as the greedy designs of the caricatured plutocrat in plug hat and fur collar. Ultimately, the dove enables them to escape into the clouds on streetcleaners' brooms "to a kingdom where 'good morning!' really means 'good morning...