Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attempting to leave Russia last week, the mistress of a U. S. cat named Fluff was sternly reminded by Red guards: "The exportation of cats is forbidden without special permission of the State Fur Trust...
...Perhaps, but a cat is a fur-bearing animal and the export of fur is a State monopoly...
...Harbin, Consul Hanson took no sides. He made friends with everybody. He got U. S. oil promoters and fur dealers out of trouble over White Russian dancers. And he kept his eyes & ears wide open. On the crucial Chinese Eastern Railway he rode impartially in the private cars of Chinese officials, Russian officials, Japanese bankers. When Japan finally turned from scheming to shooting he was ready. Without waiting for instructions he swung through the trouble area, let Secretary Stimson act on first-hand facts instead of garbled press reports...
From the rostrum of Duke University's expensive chapel one evening last week Dr. Broadus Mitchell, an economist of Johns Hopkins University, looked with misgiving upon an audience of fur-coated coeds. Said...
...night, twice a week, he prepares a running comment for Fox Movietone News, reputedly for $500 a week.* Between times he makes talk for Universal's Going Places travelogs, puts in time on a full-length cinema on the Mt. Everest expedition, goes on lecture tours, tends a fur farm at his home in Pawling, N. Y., serves as toastmaster at innumerable banquets, writes bits of three new books at a time...