Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some 400 people, about a quarter of his payroll, on the way. During the past fortnight Paramount carved off about 50 of its excess employes, while 20th Century-Fox was reported to have fired from 100 to 200 persons. Bullock's-Wilshire shop did not sell an expensive fur coat in ten days and Giro's night club was a morbid expanse of bare white table tops on Thursday, usually the busiest night...
...means negligible. This War, his most recent pamphlet, is a masterful piece of classical rhetoric, tinged, like much of his work, with Goethean pompousness. It is, in essence, an exhortation to the German people to rise up and remove the rulers they have permitted themselves, without fur ther poisoning their integrity by awaiting the war's outcome ; and to take active part in creating, with the rest of Europe, the possibilities of freedom and of a lasting peace: a European Confederation...
...ingenious Roaches put fur coats on a pair of old Los Angeles elephants, Queenie and Sally, to simulate mammoths. A cow was similarly bewigged to make an aurochs. Dinosaurs used in the picture are four-foot-long South American tejus blown up by trick camera work to Mesozoic dimensions. Victor in the dinosaur battle is a baby alligator with a fin dubbed in his back...
...rank with the best. Christ-Janer's up-to-date biography of the slight, religious, sharp-tongued cabinetmaker's apprentice is of most interest for its reproductions (many of the originals have vanished). To evoke the U. S. past as successfully as these paintings of flatboatmen, fur traders, political scenes, many a novelist would give his right...
...their box-office success has been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome. S. (for "Sol" for Solomon) Hurok, impresario of the ballet, was playing a super. With him, similarly disguised, was Sportsman-Angel Julius Fleischmann (yeast), head of World-Art, Inc., which owns the ballet...