Word: furs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vice consul's Irish setter was first up the gangway. Then fur-hatted Consul General Angus Ward loomed over the side of the U.S. freighter Lakeland Victory, at anchor off Taku Bar, a deep-water port downriver from Tientsin, China. He squinted cheerfully through his steel-rimmed spectacles as he came on board, his famous reddish beard now partly white, his fur-collared canvas coat and breeches bagging around his undernourished, 6-ft. frame...
Another dozen undergraduates are collecting $1 an hour around Greater Boston by playing Santa Claus in various department stores. Before donning their fur trimmed suits and white boards, the Santas must attend a two-day school to learn the traditional belly-shaking laugh. Applicants need not be fat, according to Holt, but a genuine liking for children is required...
George Markham, of the CIO International Fur and Leather Workers, will discuss "The CIO Convention and the Future of American Laber" before a John Reed Club audience at 7:45 p.m. tonight at Phillips Brooks House...
Hollywood, having recently discovered the hitherto untapped field of racial and religious prejudice, insensately to gather all the fur its as quickly as possible. "Pinky" is beyond the reach of the amateurism which dominated the earliest production; it may have just escaped an era of subtle melodrama-prejudice which is to come...
Surrounded by empty money bags, Harry P. Shea, 74, retired head of a chain of dry cleansing stores, was found slain today in the fur storage vault of the company's main office in Cambridge. Chief of Detectives Patrick J. Ready said the elderly Shea was apparently ambushed inside the building, forced to open the vault which contained money and furs, and then slugged...