Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Local draft boards have caused much complaint with their conflicting rulings on married registrants. The Gruman board policy makes more sense than most: the board uses the draft to solve unhappy marriages, does not draft the happily married. Example: a registrant whose wife appeared in a swank fur coat, said she had a job as a model, could hardly wait until her husband was in the Army and out of her sight. He was drafted...
...have feared that Churchill had a bigger gun in his pocket than Archibald MacLeish. For Washington newshawks credit the Librarian of Congress with writing much of the Third Inaugural and more than one cozy Fire side Chat. This week they scanned the two latest MacLeish prose books for fur ther stylistic evidences. There were plenty...
...cold at Hialeah that lady railbirds tucked their winter tans into fur coats. Others huddled under blankets, shivered and wished they had stayed home in bed. Runaway breezes whipped the bright costumes of Seminole Indians squatting beneath the palms in the infield, parted the tail feathers of long-legged pink flamingos parading before the stands...
...York summer resort Mr. Max Heitner, Bronx real-estate agent, once met an agreeable, balding fellow named Benjamin Tannenbaum, who said he was an accountant. They became friends. Police knew Ben as Benny the Boss, gangster aide of Louis Lepke and Jacob Gurrah, convicted dope and fur racketeers. One night last week, while Benny the Boss was sitting up with the Heitner baby and the parents were out, the mob found Benny, left him dead with two bullets in his chest. The baby slept through...
Equally uncompromising is the attitude of Holland's Calvinists. The Nazi-backed Deutsche Zeitung fur die Niederlanden complains that "The Dutch churches have been veritable centres of opposition to the Reich." At a Protestant meeting in Amsterdam former Cabinet Minister J. R. Slotemaker de Bruine apostrophized the Nazis: "Do not expect us to drive out of public life that which is most holy. Spiritual freedom, freedom of church, school and opinion, lies in our very blood." About a third of The Netherlands' 8,700,000 population are Catholics, an other third strict Calvinists, the rest most ly Calvinists...