Word: furred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strenuous Days. Her Majesty no sooner reached the Ritz (in a fur trimmed coat of beige and green velvet with a close fitting hat) than she sallied forth again to the establishments of Patou and Redfern (in a regal purple hat exactly matching a long swishing cloak). Behind stepped Princess Ileana, demure in a blue frock, a leopard fur clasped about her throat, a small tan silk...
...tribe of Eskimos gathered at Karnah, far North on the coast of Greenland. Fur clad, tallow-faced, they squatted in a ring. Before them all, the previously respected Eskimo Kudlooktoo confessed himself a murderer...
...their polls, musing. "It is all a matter of heredity," their countryman, one H. C. Brooke had announced. In collaboration with Dr. F. A. E. Crew of Edinburgh University, he had bred a strain of mice which, when 16 days old, became bald; when three weeks old, lost the fur off their backs; when a month old, ran naked. Some day, predicted Mouse-Breeder Brooke, at the present rate of shaving, clipping, singeing, bobbing, waving, shingling, barbers will be unnecessary to mankind...
...Ramblers. Heralded as the world's funniest twain, Bobby Clark and Paul McCullough rode into town on a two-cylinder vehicle, The Ramblers, and proved it. The resilient cigar and long, fur overcoat are still with them as they amble about Tia Juana with murderous Mexican villains in sinister pursuit. An off-and-on love affair, and a charming dancer, Marie Saxon, are tossed in for good measure. Presented as a musical comedy, The Ramblers is really an excuse for bringing back Comedians Clark and McCullough in a prolonged skit. It is a good excuse...
...kept his hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...