Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another damper was the lack of good fur, real wool. French ingenuity did its best. Rabbits became everything up to ermine and chinchilla. Cats, rats, moles were tinted and tortured into sealskin and beaver. But Parisians faced a cold winter without much coal. Said the Chicago Daily News' correspondent Helen Kirkpatrick: "If some enterprising couturier could acquire an unlimited supply of wool . . . the most popular collection would be one showing woolen underwear...
Things look good in Europe, but bad here. Practically everyone seems to think the whole world war is just about over, and that all we need do now is to plan fur coats and automobiles for the almost immediate future. Which probably means that the coming tough encounter with Japan will be prolonged months or years longer than necessary because of the letdown caused by false optimism. And that means plenty of lives just wasted! Not a cheering prospect for us, nor for our comrades, the soldiers and sailors. Mightn't be a bad idea to celebrate Germany...
...Athenaeum Library, with its rare books for scholarly research, is permitted by card only. Occasionally Radcliffe students of special merit are given cards to the Library, to the horror of older members. "Why," declared one indignant Back Bay lady, "these young women come in with their lipstick and their fur coats, and actually ask for scholarly books, thereby adding hypocrisy to their other sins!"--Readers Digest, September...
...quiet waters of Ontario's Algonquin Park, where the beavers live protected lives, four Cree Indians, Dominion Fur Supervisor Hugh Conn and his wife were busily trapping beavers. They would send the live animals north to the even quieter waters of the Kesagami Beaver and Fur Preserve. There only the red man may trap. Explained Supervisor Conn: "Doles [do not] solve the [Indian] economic problem. . . . They have lived by the hunt for centuries. The obvious answer ... is to restore fur bearers...
...wolves may find their prey wearing sheep's clothing next winter. A chemical process which makes sheep pelts look like expensive fur was announced last week...