Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...group of 28 dervishes, sheiks and others arrested some weeks ago for fomenting insurrection against the Turkish government and later sentenced to death. Leader of the dervishes was 94-year-old Sheik Abdul Hassan, who sat cross-legged on the floor of his prison cell, dressed in an expensive fur-lined overcoat, taking snuff and murmuring "Bismillah!" ("In the name of God!") The night before he was to mount the scaffold at Menemen he quietly died...
Elder Statesman Elihu Root, now almost 86. marched in his fur-collared overcoat into a Senate committee room one morning last week and took a solitary seat at the end of a long table. He had come to explain to the Foreign Relations Committee his formula whereby the U. S. could join the World Court. But the Committee kept Mr. Root waiting 30 minutes. Behind him rose the loud chatter of peace-loving women who packed the room. Mr. Root ran his fingers impatiently over his short grey mustache...
...have read your article on "Ponzi Payment in TIME, Jan. 5. Found it interesting, but none too accurate. My hair is neither chestnut nor grey. It's gone. Have never worn lavender pajamas nor pink ribbons on my night shirt. Fur coat and overshoes on extremely cold nights have been my limit...
...immediate resignation of all directors. This was declared to be "out of order." Then the stockholders voted to replace three directors, including Governor Sale. Next step will be to sell the Hudson's Bay stores to Canadian investors, leaving the historic Company engaged only in the fur and land business, and buyer for the Canadian stores...
...Lancaster, Pa., Mrs. Aline Hall, 22, wanted her husband to give her a fur coat. Her mother-in-law wanted a canary. The mother-in-law got a fur coat; Mrs. Aline Hall got the bird. Mrs. Aline Hall took poison, was dangerously...