Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailor was drunk. He held a half-empty bottle of whiskey as he swooped into a silk and fur shop. The half-dozen Chinese clerks inside looked apprehensively at each other...
Drunk as he was, the sailor knew what he wanted. "Where's your silk scarves?" A Chinese clerk got some out. The sailor pawed through them and took another drink. Then he wobbled across the room to the fur counter, with clumsy furtiveness stuffed a piece of fur under his heavy pea jacket and moved back to the silk...
Said his wife: "You must take one of my fur coats, dear. It is winter now in Sweden...
...remembers the texture of things - a squirrel's fur, the thickening of a horse's mane in the frost, the glint of armor and the impact of wind on the pennons in the van. The imagery is swift, the pen races the thought, the heart beats time, the invention never falters, but be neath and around all this there is an atmosphere of tender pity, of universal friendliness, of how mellow a wisdom, how golden a simplicity...
...discussed politics openly and frankly. No censor was at work. But the character of the press had changed. Individuals could no longer publish newspapers. Only groups (political parties, unions, etc. had the right. At first the new press displayed a striking sameness in content, tameness in outlook. Recently polemical fur has begun to fly between Socialists and Communists...