Word: furs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week was National Fur Week. But the biggest fur story did not come, as planned, from the furmen's expensive publicity outlets...
...counterraid, for Washington had taken Dr. Fagg from Northwestern. A teacher of economics and law for 15 years-at Harvard, University of Southern California and the Institut fur Luftrecht in Konigsberg, Germany, as well as Northwestern-Dr. Fagg, a Wartime liver, founded and headed the Institute of Air Law in Chicago in 1929, became so authoritative an expert in his subject that the Federal Government drafted him as part-time legal adviser in 1934, later asked him to help revise the civil air regulations...
Outplayed the greater part of the game, Eliot managed to push over a touchdown late in the second quarter to de-fur the Rabbits 7-0. "Slugger" White, spark-plug of the Elephant attack, went over for the score on a 30-yard slash off tackle...
...much I saw lying there. Deomys, a lanky rat with hind legs like springs, came bounding past in pairs, their sleek orange fur glistening in the half-light, their white bellies immaculate as snow. Bundles of purplish fur bobbed up and down amongst the water weeds, every now and then appearing on open patches of mud and sand, balanced on their pale, stilt-like supports and long, naked tails. A marsh rat (Malacomys) has much to do as darkness falls, searching out likely feeding grounds, cleaning his dense woolly coat, preening his immense whiskers, and apparently fraternizing with his kind...
...native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying ecstatically, "I am purified." His beautiful Spanish wife had abandoned him when he collapsed with fever. Heading for Shanghai in the company of a Chinese fur merchant, she exhausted her last will power in fleeing from her host's insidious attentions, was easily hypnotized by her next Chinese escort, who sold her into prostitution: a fate which left her spiritually clear-eyed, "inexplicably passive and serene," for the first time in her life...