Word: furs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blinked in amazement at the madness of Americans. The fresh snow in the backyard of the famous Spiridonovskaya Palace was littered with new bathtubs and other plumbing fixtures. One of the handsomest houses in the city, it was built only a few years before the revolution by Spasso, a fur tycoon (soon afterward murdered by his son), and its plumbing, barely 25 years old, is among the most modern in Moscow. But those crazy Americans who rented it as a home for their Ambassador have to have still newer plumbing...
Regal in a fur-trimmed, flamingo gown, Contralto Wettergren went through her usual Swedish rigmarole of demanding a kick in the rear for good luck on her open-ing night. Beauteous Mrs. Edward Morris performed this kickoff. Then Wettergren rippled through an aria from Thomas' Mignon, squatted rather than bowed to accept a bouquet of chrysanthemums from the Swedish Choral Society. But what brought the Chicago audience to its feet and earned Singer Wettergren five encores was a group of Swedish and Finnish songs. She sang these, according to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the business-like Journal of Commerce...
...duck-billed platypus -thrived until white men came. When Chile's supply of chinchilla began to run low, hunters and trappers swarmed out through the Australian bush, slaughtered koalas by tens of thousands, shipped their hides off to the U. S. to be made into cheap fur coats or women's bags, belts and shoes. After a time Australia declared a permanent closed season on koalas, but by then the little beast was almost extinct...
...Toledo, Ohio, Barbara Beck was photographed in a fur-lined bathtub...
...WINGS, FUR & SHOT (A Grass-roots Guide to American Hunting)-Robert B. Vale-Stackpole ($4). Some people may cry out against this book because its purpose, aside from underscoring some truisms of game conversation, is to tell inexperienced hunters how, when and where to quarry. It runs the North American gamut from squirrels and doves up through bear and turkeys. It is written in short, efficient chapters, with a minimum of glowing reminiscence, a maximum of good hunting sense. Bob Vale has shot wild guinea fowl in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and told a bear to go scat...