Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...troubles. With a funded debt of $670,133,000 in 1938, B. & O. had to pay out $32,184,000 in fixed charges. That year the line lost $13,124,530 and it looked as if the courts came next. But Uncle Dan made the fur fly, got $8,233,000 from his old friend Jesse Jones, sold a ditch of a canal to PWA for $2,000,000, persuaded Congress to pass the Chandler Act, so astutely worded that it helped no other trunk line, but let B. & 0. cut its fixed charges...
Once in the fold, she acquires an aging socialite (Ian Hunter), a plush Park Avenue apartment, seven diamond bracelets, six fur coats, and the eye of the gossip columnists. In the end she dies of a brandy heart-but not before she has slunk, semiclad, through sumptuous extravaganzas that make the old Ziegfeld Follies look like the East Orange Passion Play...
...Gibbons are emotional, now mild, now vicious, but social ties are much strengthened by mutual need for parasite-plucking from their thick fur...
...reign at next month's festival, the District Commissioners last week chose Nancy Alden Strong, 17, debutante daughter of Lieut. Colonel & Mrs. A. G. Strong. Her first duty: to brave the blasts of spring. Miss Strong, with no illusions about her job, showed up in a fur coat, carrying an extra coat-a pink sports number-for the pictures. Problem, as usual, was to find one of the famed cherry trees that was at least budding. The photographers and the Queen shinnied vainly up & down many a cold tree, peering for buds. At last they found...
...next winter she returned, debarked with Pia sleeping in a fur-lined papoose bag slung over her shoulder. This time people learned she is so sensitive she blushes and buries her face in her hands when she blows a line. Before the camera she becomes so intense her stomach often rumbles nervously. Currently occupied as the saloon tart in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, she reports: "It's a nice change. You know, in Hollywood it's like being in a cage; they thrust the parts through the bars, and you take what they give...