Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Revere Rides Again. When Warner Bros, decided last year to make a movie of Davies' book, Jack Warner cried ecstatically: "By gosh, we'll put Russia on the map." Mission to Moscow, a $2,000,000 picture, is gilded with Hollywood touches. Its Russians look like fur-coated Americans, and the Soviet Union is pictured as a land of magnificent food and drink, as it probably was in the circles in which the Davieses moved. As Mrs. Davies, the picture has sweet-faced Ann Harding, and as Hero Joe Davies, tall, forceful Actor Walter Huston...
When Carey announced his intention to speak at the Temple meeting, cherry-red Joe Curran, head of the Maritime Union, promptly threatened to throw a picket line around the meeting. Carey dared him to try. Other Party Line followers in C.I.O. (the C.P. is strong in the Fur Workers Union, the Transport Workers, some locals of the U.A.W., the Aluminum Workers and the Newspaper Guild) fumed in silence. But for the vast majority of C.I.O. Jim Carey had cleared the air, had shown that friendship for Russia is one thing, Communism something else again. Said he last week in Washington...
...Furs. "The doctors made their rounds in fur overcoats covered by white gowns. . . . The wounded often had to lie in bed fully dressed. [I] frequently had to do blood transfusions in a fur coat and a fur hat and keep [my] hands warm by putting them in warm water." Operating rooms in most hospitals were too cold to use and work on wounds had to be done in the wards...
...English-Scottish descent; possibly their forebears came from ships captured by Jean Lafitte's pirates in the early 19th Century. Some of the oldsters recall their parents speaking of origins "up North." The villagers drawl their words more like Kentuckians than Louisianians, use the expression "a fur piece" to describe a considerable distance. When they are not trapping, they fish...
Jack Earley adds further information to the affect that the men are concentrating study on one subject at a time and finish each off by a true-false examination before taking up the next topic. If an officer candidate fails fur or five of these tests he is called before a board which redetermines whether or not the man is of officer material. The same result comes about when a certain number of demerits accumulate against a man. However, Earley goes on to say that the officers are very cooperative and are sincerely trying to get everyone through...