Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincere with yourself first of all, and then use judgment and common sense " "If you want a fur coat and can't afford one, don't get an imitation. A good cloth coat will be more attractive and more serviceable." "If you can't afford expensive tapestries or draperies, don't get cheap imitations. Get prints or simple cloths." "Don't try to keep up with the Joneses. It's not only bad taste, but brings unhappiness...
...doing a documentary film. A cross between a feature picture and an old-fashioned travelogue, it was to have a central story (man's struggle against Arctic cold and hunger), a cast of characters (Nanook and his family). He persuaded John Revillon and Thierry Mallet, of the famed fur-trading Revillon Freres, to back an expedition to Cape Dufferin on the northeast coast of Hudson...
Hudson's Bay (20th Century-Fox), a pedestrian exploration of the beginnings of the great fur company, is mostly talking and walking. The rest is mostly Man Mountain Laird Cregar, a newcomer to the movies, and Paul Muni, badly in need of a shave and with a French accent so realistic that it is practically unintelligible...
...that remained was for the President to review the inaugural parade. Before the White House the wind was not so keen as on Capitol Hill. The crowd stamped less, cheered more, laughed more easily. It cheered the silk-hatted, beaver-collared President (who had borrowed Joe Davies' fur-lined overcoat). It watched with unexcited approval as General Marshall on his bay horse, King Story, went by with six aides and a cavalry troop, West Point cadets and Annapolis midshipmen. Brand new grey-green Fords rolled by interminably, carrying Governors and dignitaries. There were CCC boys in green uniforms...
...Walter Winchell reported last week: "Mussolini's soldiers hope to retreat to Rome where they can be protected by the Vatican's Swiss Guards." Swiss Guards carry halberds. By an order of the peace-minded Supreme Pontiff last week the effective modern rifles of His Holiness' fur-helmeted Palatine Guards were replaced by 1840 muzzle-loaders which have been stored away in the Vatican for over half a century. If the Papal troops were ever military, they are now wholly demilitarized. Each muzzle-loader, now so rusty it would be hazardous to fire it, requires two Palatine...