Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...globe-girdling career, Monnet has sold bonds in Wall Street, peddled French brandy to the fur trappers of Hudson's Bay, liquidated a Swedish match company, and served in wartime Washington as a British diplomat purchasing arms (his French passport carried a covering letter written by Winston Churchill...
...health fanatics and diet cranks. Skourases gobble quantities of fruit, cheese, olive oil and yogurt-the latter brewed from a culture developed by Mrs. Charles Skouras. Both Spyros and Charles have massage tables, heat cabinets and showers built into their offices, where, stripped to their fine coats of curly fur, they hold conferences, issue commands, and shout dictation to stenographers from whom they are concealed by screens. Not long ago, Spyros Skouras was cornered by a reporter who asked why he did not want to become Ambassador to Greece, a post for which his name has often been mentioned...
...Winchester; RKO Radio), based on A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s 1947 novel, can best be described as a northwestern-the story of a grueling, 1,200-mile fur-trading trek up the uncharted...
Scenes filmed in Grand Teton National Park give the feeling of the northwest's sprawling magnitude, of the raw, vast, lonesome land. And in the performances of Dewey Martin as the moody, savage Boone and Arthur Hunnicutt as the grizzled old fur trapper, The Big Sky captures some of the book's roughhewn poetry and its dark strain of violence...
...CRIMSON chuckled. "Do you see the 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 with the Coat., but it does seem a shame that he can never...