Word: furs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronouncements were a liability to the general. The News, while applauding MacArthur, did not conceal its restiveness at his Olympian remoteness, and noted in irascible tones that the cops who were holding back its reporters had let a burglar enter the exclusive Waldorf and get away with a fur coat...
...afternoon of March 23, 1951, I picked up a "hitchhiker," a Harvard undergraduate, who was enroute to his home on long Island, New York. When he reached his destination and departed from the vehicle, I found a pair of leather fur lined gloves which he inadvertently left behind. I am writing this communication with the hoped of locating the owner of said gloves. Having experienced a New England winter I feel that he can use them to advantage later this year...
Many a publisher of books and booklets on atomic survival was gaily leading the citizen astray also. One advises shaving cats & dogs to prevent their fur from becoming radioactive; another advises the citizen to throw his money and jewelry away to avoid added problems if it should become contaminated.The most dangerous suggestion: that atomic burns be covered with vaseline or some patent anti-atomic ointment (recommended treatment-covering burns with only a sterile bandage until a doctor arrives...
...characterization, the real-life TV show was better than the movies. When lush Virginia Hill ("I didn't keep any books or accounts or anything") left the witness stand to a patter of applause, televiewers felt they knew all they needed to know about the free-spending, fur-bearing ex-waitress. Similarly, an urbane, aging Republican politician named Charles Lipsky revealed himself as a road-company Machiavelli hopelessly fascinated by criminal and political types ("I just loved to study Joe Adonis"). And Frank Costello, refusing to have his face televised, and finally refusing to talk at all while...
This went on, Merk explains, until the otter was so tired, he could barely dive, when all the Indians shot arrows at him. The fur pelt went to the man whose arrow lodged closest to the otter...