Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
...ladies' backs are warmed by Newfoundlanders' seals. Four-fifths of the world's fur seals belong in the U. S. Government-controlled herds which migrate yearly up the Pacific Coast to Pribilof Islands, chaperoned by Coast Guards and harried only by the harpoons of Indians and Eskimos. On Pribilof only "bachelor seals" (males under seven years old) are killed. North Atlantic seals are fatter than those on Pribilof, are covered with coarse brown hair instead of fur, and lead a harder life. Each winter they swim 1,000 mi. into the Arctic, where they become food, fuel...
...grain arrived to be distributed to 30,000 poor families while arrangements were made to house 4,000 homeless free. A guard of 5,000 troops was set round the still incomplete Imperial City. In an open courtyard a few handpicked correspondents saw court dignitaries in dragon gowns and fur hats with jeweled buttons bow low to the ground before a stuffed dummy on a lacquered and jeweled ebony throne. Blinking, spectacled Henry Pu Yi was about to become Manchu Emperor of the new state of Ta Manchu Tikuo, until last week Manchukuo, until two years ago Manchuria...
Sarah, a mass of feline fur, follows the Yard officials on their most solitary rounds. She is never far from a guardian of the Yard: her mew accompanies every flicker of the signal lantern at Gray's Hall...
...Society puts animals to death with lethal gas. Private truckers under contract to the city's Sanitation Department call daily to collect carcasses, roll them out to Barren Island. There skinners pounce on horses and mules, cats with good fur. Horse hides make shoes, baseballs; cat hides which once became ladies' neckpieces, now vanish darkly into the Orient. Skinned carcasses are dumped in a big "digester," steamed to draw out fat. This is used for rough lubricating grease. Defatted remains are dried, ground up for fertilizer. Concessionaires pocket the profit...