Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time he continued to turn out a great quantity of Missouri portraits, and a lengthy series of paintings of river boatmen, fishermen, frontier riflemen, fur traders, election day crowds, etc., etc. They were so highly admired by his contemporaries that many of them were engraved and published as prints by the famed Paris house of Goupil et Cie. Goupil et Cie were working on a lithograph of Bingham's most important canvas, The Verdict of the People, during the Siege of Paris in 1871 when a Prussian shell wrecked the entire establishment. The original painting...
Typical of hundreds of anti-German boycott organizations which are ruining Nazi trade is Manhattan's Fur Trade Boycott Committee. Last week its secretary sent out a proud circular letter to members: "Gentlemen: Looking back at our efforts since the formation of the Fur Trade Boycott Committee in 1933. we are proud to say that importation of furs from and via Germany has almost ceased. . . . Some day the Fur Trade will have reason to be proud of the part it has played in the great, historical battle for the preservation of human rights. . . . Leo Weinschenker...
...Johnson is one of the fastest wrestlers developed at Harvard and the fur flies thick and fast when he and Gallagher start to mix it up. Gallagher uses the demonstration method in teaching the tricks of the trade and goes to it with Johnson when he wants to show the boys how it is done. Although the Harvard team cannot compare with Oklahoma, nevertheless, Cliff still maintains that he can uphold the honor of the East and pin his brother to the mat at any appointed time. There is a good natured family match in the offing and Gallagher...
When the S.S Rex steamed into New York harbor one evening last week reporters clambered aboard to interview a celebrated passenger. They found a nervous little man who wore spats, a bright checkered scarf and a fur-lined overcoat which, for no apparent reason, he kept putting on & taking off. Once he had located the spectacles perched on the top of his head, he gladly gave his autograph. He used Russian letters but he set them down vertically, like Chinese. Deciphered, they read: '"Igor Stravinsky...
...late great Marcus Loew, Jewish fur dealer who became a tycoon in the cinema world...