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Word: furred (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...satisfactory but "la mode" was not. The latest importations had stimulated American industry but M. Poiret did not like them. He strongly objected to the popular French perfume and the most costly Parisien hats. "American women have not ze sense of beauty: Zey do not even like monkey fur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PAUL-PARROTS | 11/8/1922 | See Source »

...these figures may mean much or little, according to the point of view. At all events, the Harvard station at Arequipa has mapped out a broad field fur future exploration. The question whether the house of our next door neighbor, Mars, only a fraction of a light year away, is tenanted, is still unsettled; and now we are given a whole new system to play with, a system 15,000 light years in diameter, with hundreds of suns ten thousand times as bright as ours, and a free-for-all guessing contest as to the number of planets, invisible...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 00,000,000,000 | 10/10/1922 | See Source »

...sale. This year the board is to be put up again, and by making use of it the Seniors may collect enough to pay their fares home while the Sophomores-to-be possibly may be able to buy at least a chair or two without pawning their fur coats in payments. The man who leaves the furnishing of his room until fall need expect no mercy. He will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMP-STOOLS | 5/3/1922 | See Source »

Again the beauties of the grand humanitarian system of protecting and encouraging crime are manifested to a grateful public. The police were misguided enough to interfere with some young professionals for trying to break into a fur shop. One young man was shot fatally. In 1916 he had been convicted of burglary. His sentence was suspended. In the same year he brought forth fruits meet for repentance. Advancing gradually toward reform, he contented himself with petit larceny and was sent to the penitentiary therefor. Since then he had been arrested twice for grand larceny, once for burglary. The police have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/20/1922 | See Source »

Just as the crowd in the football arena are crouching down in their fur coats the better to avoid watching the home team fumble the kick-off, the crowds two and ten hundred miles away are settling back in their chairs and lighting up the old pipes, while the German-silver-tongued announcer steps to the front of the platform and delivers the following...

Author: By Robert Benchley and President OF Lampoon, S | Title: OF ALL THINGS | 11/19/1921 | See Source »

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