Word: furred
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next day, changing from Scout uniform to Alice-blue ensemble with black felt hat and silver fox fur, she visited the Girl Scouts' national headquarters, handshook 100 workers and said...
...August the governor of Kansu declared an amnesty. A long and dusty caravan of Mohammedans flocked back to their homes in Tao-chow-ting. At the city gates fur-hatted sentries with long Russian rifles turned all the men from 15 to 50 aside, ordered them to go to a distant field where they would be given food for their families. At the field hidden machine guns leaped, sparked and rattled. Three thousand men milled like sheep, were shot down in their tracks. Terrified Moslem women, hearing the gunfire, rushed from the city gates, hysterically committed suicide by the bleeding...
...Grand Rapids, Mich., the city pound manager put a cat into the asphyxial chamber with some dogs. The cat arched its back and spit for a fight. Its fur was bristling. .The manager slammed the chamber door and turned on the gas. The box exploded, injuring human attendants. Another explosion followed a similar experiment. Last week under the same circumstances there was a third explosion. Deduction: static electricity from the fighty cat's fur ignited the lethal gas. Authorities considered having the Grand Rapids Gas Light Co. perform further executions under contract...
...touch either, but must dance fast, with abandon. Best-Dressed Highlander. He must own his clothes. His shoes must be low-cut brogues without buckles. The kilt must be made of his clan tartan, worn plain, no bows, no ribbons. The sporran (bag) must be of mottled leather or fur. If fur, the animal must be native to the Highlands, either otter, wildcat, badger, fox or skunk. The head must be mounted on the fur...
Author Constantin-Weyer's past includes 14 eventful years in Canada as farmer, trapper, woodsman, horse-trader, fur-trader. His novel is less eventful than-his life, more in a spirit of stylistic brooding...