Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to early returns, the U.S. was certain to have a hard winter. There was some corroborating data from the amateurs. Connecticut prognosticators said the stripes on caterpillars had been extremely long last summer-a sure sign of a tough winter ahead. Southern hunters announced that squirrel fur was the thickest in years. But more fastidious prophets refused to talk until mid-November, which is the best time for studying chicken bones and sweet-corn tassels. Dark bones and dark tassels mean a cold winter coming...
...heavy oak doors will swing open on the Met's 62nd season. Out front there will be strapless gowns in the boxes, and straphangers in the gallery; backstage there will be extras in armor, seamstresses in a hurry and props in the way. A good many of the fur-wrapped natives in the Diamond Horseshoe will be there under the same grim or triumphal compulsion that gets them to church once a year for Easter services. A good many of the gallerygoers will clump up 119 steps like pious martyrs, sure that they are the only ones...
...Down Furs. Luxury goods were hardest hit. Sales of fur coats were down; so were fur prices. Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus announced a one-third reduction in the price of $113,170 worth of "truly magnificent fur coats...
...Colorado, the fur flew. The cause of the commotion was a grey, chunky, 75-year-old woman, who stumped up & down the state, making three speeches a day, buttonholing businessmen, doctors, politicians, writing letters morning & night. Dr. Florence Rena Sabin, "the greatest living woman scientist" (according to Dr. Simon Flexner, late famed director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research), was out to reduce Colorado's shockingly high death rate from disease...
Bigger & Better. After four drab war seasons, the football weekend was back. The Big Game was again something to anticipate, prepare for, and see-in a slight haze induced by sentimentalism, alcohol, and the sight of thousands of chrysanthemums on fur coats...