Word: furred
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poupette Gautier, chic unmarried personal secretary to Prime Minister André Tardieu, showed pique at the acclaim London papers continued to bestow on Statesman Stimson's "beauty chorus of typists." "Well, we French typists haven't any fur coats like the wonderful Americans," said Poupette, "but we came here to type reports and we shall type reports. One might think to read the papers that this was a style show...
Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were...
...other countries, of which the first was the London and Cambridge Economic Service, conducted by a committee representing the Departments of Economics at the University of London and Cambridge University. Of the others, the best known are the Institute of Statistics of the University of Paris, the Institute fur Konjunkturforschung in Berlin, and the Institute of Statistics and Economic Politics at the University of Rome. A conference of these various committees and institutes was held in London in June, 1928, and another conference will probably be held this coming summer. It is not too much to hope that...
...Olympic title once and the Norwegian six times. Her father, William Henie, runs a trade in women's wear that has been in the Henie family for 100 years. His store on the Prinsens-Gade, with its flag over the door and the costly sheen of the fur coats behind the thick plateglass, is one of the most expensive, the most profitable in Oslo. As a boy he liked to ride bicycles, and won the world's amateur championship at Antwerp in 1893. Pleased that his little girl had inherited a snub nose from her Irish grandmother...
...there on time. After sunrise a woman in a brown fur coat, a Mrs. George A. Barrett, lined up behind him. With satisfaction Citizen Hunefeld surveyed the lengthening queue stretching out along the fence, down the street, around the corner. Fine weather, good spirits and natural curiosity about a new President had brought out thousands of plain people who do not get written invitations to White House functions...