Word: furred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lights went out, the heat went off, the U. S. liner President Harding floundered in the Atlantic Ocean like a toothpick in an inky brook. Passengers groped about their staterooms in search of fur coats; the cooks burned hatch covers and dunnage in their stoves. The President Harding was completely out of oil. No land was in sight. Captain Theodore van Beek assured everyone that Halifax (Nova Scotia) was only 19 miles away, that he had dropped anchor, that tugs were bringing oil. . . . The President Harding finally reached New York Harbor last week, six days behind schedule...
...years ago she had on a black satin gown with grey fur trimming, imported from Manhattan...
...Regarde, ma petite!" said a svelte woman in the crowd to her fur-clad infant. "That is the President of France who dedicates the opening after 70 years of the magnificent Boulevard Haussmann...
...They had arrived in the luggage of Explorer-Engineer Grant Carveth Wells of England, who was going to take them to the American Museum of Natural History, where they would be mounted against a background of bleak tundra and labeled Lemmus norvegicus, the lemming. Stubby of tail, tawny of fur, blunt of snout, five inches long, lemmings are probably the only mice that ever excited awe in both sexes of human kind. Not Aesop's mouse who gnawed a lion free; not the three blind mice whom the farmer's spouse decaudated; not the clock-scaling mouse...
...TIME, Feb. 22). Time was when his father, John Bigelow, was U. S. Ambassador at Paris; and young Poultney is said to have paddled the first U. S. canoe that ever skimmed through the Iron Gates of the Danube. Nowadays, however, he putters and chops in a fur-eared cap; and, like Wilhelm II, is writing his autobiography. Recently, as one autobiographer to another, Poultney Bigelow reviewed the onetime Kaiser's latest work,* wrote of him as follows: "It was William II's good fortune to know in his youth only pure women and clean, brave, loyal, highly...