Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week over a CBS network Robert Ripley reunited after 40 years a mother and her long-lost son. Having accomplished this minor miracle, Ripley changed the pace of his Believe It Or Not show, abandoned hearts & flowers to hold radio's first network fur auction. Purpose of the auction was to raise funds for four Norwegians who fled from their Nazi-controlled homeland last July in a 38-ft. pilot sloop, pulled into New York City 54 days later with no assets save their boat and a platina fox fur...
Known on the Northwestern campus for his so called "fur fez", Professor McGovern taught in the Government Department here three years...
...that Harvard is a hotbed of radicals and crackpots. Ask a communist, and he will explain that Harvard is a citadel of reaction, and that the University's much-vaunted liberalism is so much window-dressing. Ask a Cambridge citizen, and he will inform you that Harvard is a fur-lined cradle for the idle and arrogant sons of the rich. Go to Mickey Sullivan, the Donald Duck of Cambridge politics, and he will embrace all these concepts--he will picture the typical Harvard student as a wealthy young snob, driving madly to a deb party in his sixteen cylinder...
...Clad in a brassiere and a G-string, with feathers in her hair and on her heels, Miss Bacon insisted, wedding or no wedding, that she was going to do her uninhibited stuff before the television camera. In honor of the occasion, Miss Bacon offered to put on a fur neckpiece, was enraged when Don Lee officials rejected her compromise...
...stuff in dummies and drapes. Dali's surrealist windows were a big success. But shocked customers finally demanded that his hair-raising semi-nude manikins be further draped. Infuriated by unscheduled changes in his windows, spindly-framed Dali broke into one of them, hurled himself and a fur-lined bathtub through the plate glass, almost decapitated himself. Bonwit Teller did not try the experiment again...