Word: furber
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...Pale, pinch-faced little Jethro Furber, the nail-eyed reverend, was nothing but bones, and even those you could have wrapped in a hankie. His twisted figure was like a knotted string, and he hated his parishioners. With fierce Puritan intensity he preached burning, his whole inside crying die, shouting die. He worked in his garden obsessively, like a madman picking imaginary lint from his sleeve. He wanted women, imagined them in every posture. He wrote dirty doggerel and lied-his single skill. He lived in a thousand careening pieces, like a shattered army...
...Nonetheless, the company is now pushing south from Canada, has begun marketing Red Rose in border areas such as New England, northern New York and the Pacific Northwest. So far, Red Rose's best U.S. market has turned out to be Boston. Says Brooke Bond Sales Director Roy Furber with only a hint of a smile: "I suppose it goes back to that famous tea party...
...Camden, N.J., two tomcats, Pitty Sing and Budgie, were formally adjudged the beneficiaries of the $36,000 estate of Sarah Y. Furber, a retired schoolmarm...
Eliot: le, Abbot; lt, Collopy, Parker; Palmer, Rand; c, Meade, England; rg, Predmore, Winters; rt, Fisher, Cole; re, Morgan; backs, Greeley, McGiffert, Williams, Owen, Furber, Hughes...
Eliot: le, Morgan, Meyers; lt, Fisher, Parker; lg, Collopy, Winters; c, Meade, England; rg, Rand, Predmore; rt, Palmer, Cole; re, Abbot; backs, Greeley, Eckleberry, Strout, Furber...