Word: furriers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only two paces wide, 30 paces long, with four houses on each side, an obscure Paris cranny favored by refugees and exiles because the rent is low. There, in 1920, the Barabas family from Hungary found refuge, while Papa Barabas tried to find work in his trade as a furrier. They were an ambitious, warmhearted, restless outfit. Anna, the oldest girl, was emotional, observant, quick to understand other people's troubles but a little helpless about helping them as she wanted to. She took care of the house, did the marketing, while her mother worked in a laundry...
Edward Arnold, whose real name is Guenther Schneider, was born in 1890 in Manhattan. His father, a German furrier, died when he was 11, his mother when he was 15. At 11 he was apprenticed to a wholesale jeweler, but truant officers made him quit. He worked as a newsboy, bellhop, janitor's assistant at Columbia University until he graduated from amateur theatricals at an East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor...
...store field. In 1931-32 its fur catch was almost 4,500,000 pelts worth $10,000,000. It maintains 224 fur trading posts, has lately been developing silver fox farms, owns a large block of stock in the Montreal trading subsidiary of Revillon, Inc., famed Paris and Manhattan furrier...
...board the He de France when she docked in Manhattan last week, an amazed Manhattan furrier named I. J. Fox unexpectedly found himself surrounded by inquisitive ship news reporters. To them his name suggested, and his occupation did not exclude, the possibility that he might be a cinemagnate. Their mistake was ignorant but understandable, for the He de France's passenger list was brimming with the names of cinema celebrities...
...words as bliaut, destrier, devinalh, joc-partitz, tenson, Author Cronyn has built a massive keep whose outlines are impressive but inside are only senseless shadows. Peire Vidal, famed troubadour who actually lived until Author Cronyn began to put him down on paper, was the cast-off son of a furrier in Toulouse. Awkward and ugly, but with the gift of song, he soon made a name for himself. From court to castle he went his amorous and lyric way, wooing his hostesses with varying success. Once, on his way to serenade a lady, and clad only in a wolfskin...