Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon a small male figure in a fur-collared overcoat knocked, entered, pulled off his gloves, delicately measured Madame for alterations. Heaven be praised, it was all over. In a week Madame would have her gown. She might also have pneumonia, but she would not be shabby...
...Size of It. In Harrisburg, Pa., a newspaper ran an advertisement: "Wanted. A quilted high chair that can be made into a play table, pottie chair, rocking horse, ice-refrigerator, spring coat, size 18, with fur collar...
...Fur Smoothed. The Italian Cabinet allowed that it would accept as an apology an explanation that: 1) Prime Minister Winston Churchill had not been fully quoted when he made the condescending remark in his recent speech to the House of Commons that "we need Italy no more than we need Spain"; 2) he was merely answering the suggestion that Britain was embarking on a system of power politics in the Mediterranean...
Dangerous Pets. In Manhattan, United Seamen's Service headquarters instructed its branches to stop sending gift cats to U.S. tanker crews. Reason: the static electricity in their fur makes them fire hazards...
Mornings, Emily worked sparingly for the British North-China Daily News, reserving her energy and enthusiasm for Anglo-Chinese bilingual "little mags." Evenings, she dressed her gibbons in sable fur coats, took them to cocktail parties and dinners. But after a while Emily felt bored and lonely. "I'll get old and fat out here," she complained to her Chinese boy friend Sinmay, a publisher. "You are morbid," said Sinmay, "you must marry me." She went to his lawyer and signed a paper "declaring that I considered myself his [Sinmay's] wife 'according to Chinese...