Word: furs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Field, Los Angeles, Cal., to Roosevelt Field, Long Island, N. Y., in 18 hr., 21 min., 59 sec., beating by 37 minutes the previous record held by Pilot Arthur Goebel. "I would have made it three hours sooner with decent weather," said Pilot Hawks. Beneath his heavy fur coat, Pilot Hawks revealed a neatly pressed business suit, well shined shoes, spats...
...dawn the old German Imperial standard broke out from the flagstaff of House Doorn. As the morning advanced, Burgo master Baron Schimmelpenninck van der Roye arrived with a Dutch choir, proceeded to the Orangerie and staged a birthday serenade to Wilhelm II, 70. Clad in black fur-lined coat and astrakhan cap Wilhelm of Doom listened, seemed to especially enjoy a folk song called "The Bold Spinster." After thanking the choir and the Burgomaster Baron, he alluded to his famed hobby thus...
Little Domini Lawrence is the daughter of widowed Hon. Mrs. Clive Lawrence who was married to the Lord High Chancellor, himself a widower. Little Domini came to the wedding dressed all in primrose yellow, with a primrose yellow hat edged with white fur. Awed by the sombre splendor of the great chapel?where Knights of the Bath worship?Little Domini sat mouse quiet as long as she could. Suddenly it seemed to occur to her that so much pomp deserved at least one question...
...like General William H. Sumner, but the characteristic features of the house centered around shipping and merchants ship owners, as did the activities of all New England. The leading merchants of the day, like Thomas Handasyd Perkins, Isreal Thorndike, and William Sturgis and John Bryant of the Northwest fur trade, seem to have enjoyed the vintages from Mr. Jones...
Untalkative, small, muscular, shrewd, Zukor got along in the fur business. He and his partner, Morris Kohn, understood fur tradition?when a dealer tried to cheat them, one held him by the throat while the other ran to the bank to cash his check before he could stop payment. In 1897, surrounded by a tribal