Word: furred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...publisher: "'Mohicans is looking up famously in Europe." The resident intellectuals, including Jean Jacques Rousseau with his ideals about the "noble savage," had softened up the civilized world for Cooper and his admirable aborigines. He was as much a social lion as Benjamin Franklin in his fur...
Pressing Orders & Fast Talk. Clark was "embarrassed" by another record maker's gift of a ring to him and a necklace and fur piece to his wife (total value: $4,400). But there could be no onus attached to the gift: Clark explained that he had never worn the ring. A freckled, pipe-smoking songwriter named Orville Lunsford told how Clark's subsidiary firms worked. His record All American Boy got a fast ride to the No. 2 position in record sales-but only, he said, after the Mallard Pressing Corp.. one of Clark's interests...
...started his musical career as a tenor back in the days when he was attending Evander Childs High School in The Bronx. Born. Leonard Warrenoff, son of the Russian-born owner of a fur shop, Warren dabbled in singing until he was 14, dropped the idea, returned to it as a baritone when he was 19, and started studying seriously. In the Depression years he worked in his father's shop, then landed a job in the chorus at the Radio City Music Hall...
...Parliament that rejects a political voice for Africans, and by a public opinion that supports laws and customs not much different from South Africa's-except, say its critics, for the addition of hypocrisy. The son of a Russian-Polish immigrant who gave up a profitable fur trade in the U.S. Midwest to try his luck in the South African diamond rush, husky young Roland Welensky left school at 14 and wandered all over Africa, taking jobs as clerk, butcher and baker, then settled in his native Rhodesia. His success as a union organizer led on to politics...
...path to Squaw Valley's reception center, where a welcome party for them was already blazing up. In front of a huge open fire, Pat paused long enough to take off her coat (with lapels solidly festooned with Olympic buttons pinned on by the eager young athletes) and fur-trimmed galoshes (borrowed for the occasion from her teen-age daughter). Then she headed resolutely for the reception line. A Swedish official in a white sweater kissed her hand. Danny Kaye stopped to chat for a moment, and Art Linkletter, in a shaggy bearskin scrape, got a guffaw from Dick...