Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hacked off their trousers and flaunted legs which never faced public eye before. Led by the Dartmouth and other organizations the movement spread rapidly in spite of a chilly wind that made action a requisite. Fox Movietone appeared and with it a group called the opposition dressed in sheepskins, fur coats, ski jackets, mufflers, and mittens--they suffered at the hands of the rebels. Attempts at a talkie were interrupted by continual catcalls, but the pictures were taken and Boston and New York newspapers carried glowing descriptions of the uprising. A rainy and cold day chilled the enthusiasm...
Irrevocably smirched seemed Gustav ("Pinochle Gus") Boess, famed Ober-Bürgermeister of Berlin, when, during his tour of the U. S. last year, it appeared that Frau Boess had "bought" a magnificent fur coat for next to nothing from the Sklarek brothers, Berlin clothing contractors to whom fat municipal contracts had been awarded...
...police during the past fortnight. They were: Terrence ("Terrible Terry") Druggan, ill in a hospital; Danny Stanton, jailed because his gun was said to prove ballistically that he had shot swart Jack Zuta; Caponeman Jack Guzick, first arrested by Federal agents for income-tax evasion; James (''Fur") Sammons, robber, killer, ex-convict; Edward ("Spike") O'Donnell, Capone beer salesman; ("Dago") Lawrence Mangano, west side gambling-house keeper; George ("Red") Barker and William ("Three-fingered Jack") White, both agents of the coal teamsters union (nonA...
...discovery of a white animal belong- ing to a species whose members are usually dark in color, calls forth a religious ceremony in savage countries, a news story in civilized countries. Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex- pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white...
...past she has equipped herself with a deluge of fantastic publicity. All Los Angeles heard last week that at home in Manhattan she sleeps in a canopied bed, an ermine rug for a blanket, toes always exposed; that she is never seen in public without her husband, has 36 fur coats, wears 14-karat-gold hairpins; that in Europe, where the Brulatours travel as Count & Countess, a Cairo sheik offered her husband four of his choicest wives in exchange...