Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the scrubby frame stores and dwellings of East 133rd Street in the vast, tawdry northern sector of New York City which is called The Bronx, sprawls the low brick structure of a fur dyeing factory, broad, ugly, busy. Beside it runs an alley full of old machinery. Into this alley one afternoon last week drove the factory manager with a $4,619 payroll, guarded by a policeman. Two youths stepped up to the car with drawn automatic pistols. One covered the manager, forced him out of the car, took the payroll. The other sent a bullet through the policeman...
...remains of the shipment of Manchurian partridges but no more poisoned birds were found. Sportsmen advanced a new theory. In Manchuria hunters are in the habit of poisoning the carcasses of partridges with strychnine and leaving them on the ground as bait to catch rare foxes without spoiling the fur. One of these bait birds might have found its way to Lieut. Chevis' dinner table. But what about the HOORAYS of J. Hartigan...
...house on Christmas Eve, he smelled a rat, hoped he could trap it. Sure enough he caught the Baron with another man's wife, blackmailed him into changing clothes and pocketbooks for 48 hours. Revenge for social injustice was all Abt wanted, but somehow the Baron's fur coat and well-lined purse made life more complicated than ever. All his puzzling problems were solved when the lady's husband shot him. The Baron thanked his stars for his lucky escape and tried to be a better husband, a better capitalist. Within a week, however, he found...
...dozen coypus, husky South American rodents (second cousin of the chinchilla) with stiff, reddish-brown fur, orange-colored teeth, and partially webbed hind toes, reached Manhattan from the Argentine last week. They were sent up the Hudson River on whose banks they were to be released to live on water plants, to breed, multiply and furnish a domestic supply of the fur which, when shrewdly treated, resembles badger and is called nutria...
...underwear, some in trousers, all in acute discomfort, at about the cabin of the Graf Zeppelin as she ambled one day last week from Friedrichshafen to Berlin, first stop on her 1931 Arctic cruise. To minimize the load, each man's baggage had been limited to the heavy fur & woolen clothing required in the Far North...