Word: furness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...increasing number of films, brochures and special mailings are sent to wives. Salesmen's wives sometimes get heavy-handed reminders, that the company is running a sales contest in which their husbands can win such prizes as fur coats, refrigerators, toasters, etc. Another firm has set up a kind of finishing school for wives. "As soon as the husband reaches the $8,000-to-$10,000 bracket, his wife becomes eligible, for grooming." A vice president's wife takes her in hand, shows her where to shop, eat, vacation and how to dress and entertain...
...Gazing at the rich fur rug on her knees," Ethel answered warmly, "Very nice...
Something Soft in the Cellar. Novelist Bory, an inveterate courtroom spectator, discovered Sylvie soon after the war,when she was haled into court for stealing from her sister-in-law's Paris apartment seven dresses, six blouses, a kilo of sugar, a rabbit-fur vest, 10.000 francs and the stuffed head of a Pyrenean lizard. The judges sentenced her to three months in prison. Novelist Bory then & there determined to make Sylvie the heroine of his next book. The novel Fragile, or the Basket of Eggs* became a bestseller...
Berliners still remember the comic relief that fat Hermann Goering injected into the tragic drama of their lives. They remember him standing on icy street corners, bundled snugly up to the ears in a fur coat, shaking a collection box (for "Winter Help") and crying cheerily: "A few pennies, please! It is more blessed to give than to receive!" They recall how unconquerably waggish he sounded when he shouted (on the eve of World War II): "If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Goering; you can call me Meier"-and how they still...
...many a euphemizing U.S. furrier, a skunk is not a skunk at all. It is a "genuine civet cat," "Alaska sable" or "black marten." For four years, the Federal Trade Commission has been trying to get Congress to outlaw fancy names for common furs, last week finally won out when President Truman signed such a bill. Under it, the FTC will issue a "Fur Products Name Guide," which furriers will have to obey, e.g., black Manchurian dogs will be known as black Manchurian dogs, and not as "Belgium lynx" or "black poiret...