Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenty-five feet down, in a wooden coffin, the diggers say they found the mummified body of a young girl, almost perfectly preserved. She must have been the daughter, wife or favorite of a man of consequence; her clothes, still in good condition, were rich with fur and ornaments. She had a mirror of polished silver alloy and golden jeweled earrings. Close at hand were primitive musical instruments. (These and the girl's unusually long and slender fingers suggested to one of the romantic, but not very scientific, diggers that she may have been a musician...
Died. Irving Joseph Fox, 58, who ran a single fur coat into a $12-million annual business (I. J. Fox, Inc.) by some of the loudest publicity since Barnum; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. London-born son of a furrier, Fox pioneered in sky writing and singing commercials ("All Girls Are Beautiful"), introduced commercially some fabulous luxury furs (silverblu, platina), but did most of his business in installment sales of cheaper goods...
...Italian Partisans Association and a distinguished guest, General Sidor Kovpak, vice president of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic. Six abreast in precise lines, the Reds swung along under their mingled banners: the green & white flag of Italy and the red hammer & sickle. "Viva Stalin. . . . Death to De Gasperi!" shouted the fur-capped Ligurian Brigade as it passed the garish white marble monument to the Unknown Soldier. Italian partisans cheered the words of their leader, Luigi Longo: "We do not consider ourselves museum pieces. ... In our hearts are intact the enthusiasm and ideals of conspiracy and of insurrection...
...Promise. The reform had been anticipated. Two weeks earlier the U.S. State Department's Voice of America had reported a buying spree in Moscow, started by a rumor of new money. Thousands of Russians frantically tried to convert their money into more durable things-silk lampshades and fur coats-and stores closed on empty shelves behind signs which read: "Closed for repairs." Even when people had new money the shelves might stay empty...
...Scribner Prize in American History, which devoted 1,183 detail-packed pages to the brief but politically stormy period 1848-56. Five more volumes are to come. Bernard De Voto's Across the Wide Missouri covered another brief period, 1833-38, dealt lovingly, almost lyrically, with the American fur trade, the Rocky Mountain trappers and their breath-taking country. Mason Wade, biographer of Francis Parkman, did a good job in finding, and carefully editing, the historian's missing Journals...