Word: furred
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jute, tin, rubber, fur and whiskey buyers, the new rules made little difference. But for other goods, the de clining free pound was the same sort of mixed blessing as would be a reduction in U. S. tariffs. British custom tailors with clients in New York began calling attention to the availability of fine English woolens. U. S. fabricators, fearing increased imports from Britain, took alarm. The U. S. cotton market jittered as Bombay prices cheapened in relation to domestic ones. Alarmed too were some U. S. exporters who compete with Britons in foreign markets, especially when the British & Latin...
...middle of a 100,000-acre game preserve, imports falcons from Iceland to pursue that medieval sport. He plays tennis in the garden behind his palace in Berlin, wearing a hairnet to keep his long reddish hair from falling away from the balding area. He skis in a fur cap, rides in all kinds of costume. He has himself photographed at all his sports except swimming. Because of his sensitiveness about his hyper-developed mammary glands, other guests were excluded from a Baltic beach where Hermann and his wife went bathing. But he displays no such squeamishness in regard...
...Manhattan pier, one day last week, 75 cantors chanted. Five hundred rabbis, 500 pious Jewish laymen craned at a stout, full-bearded man in a fur hat debarking from the Swedish liner Drottningholm. From his long wanderings in Eastern Europe's ghettos, great & good Rabbi Joseph Isaac Schneersohn at 60 had come to make his home...
...letting down the bars, and "My Little Chickadee" supplies evidence to bear out this contention. Very typical is the scene where Flower Belle puts an exotic goat in Guthbert J. Twillie's bed. "My dear," admonishes Fields, as he climbs in beside her. "you shouldn't be wearing your fur coat at a time like this...
...fur war, I call it murder...