Word: furs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mayor Robert Wagner, 55, made a politic assessment of the stewardship of his bride, Barbara Cavanagh Wagner, in the kitchen cabinet. "The fish wasn't bad," said the mayor, "but the roast needed a little more practice. And a little more flavor. I think she needs fur ther instruction." "Noel Coward once said that some women should be struck regularly, like a gong," wrote Novelist John O'Hara, 60, in his weekly column for Long Island's Newsday. Accepting the advice, O'Hara proceeded to administer a few verbal thunks to Elizabeth Taylor...
Commodore Vanderbilt was a rowdy illiterate who wore a fur coat winter and summer and bellowed, "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" Big Jim Fisk was an ebullient bluffer who wore velvet vests and many rings, was shot to death by his mistress' lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell...
What's New Pussycat? is a comedy built on so many shaky assumptions that it ought to sue for nonsupport. It seems logical to anticipate fun aplenty when a cordon of first-rate talents gather to make the fur fly, but on this mournful occasion all hands appear joined in a conspiracy to leave Pussycat out in the rain...
Camembert & Wine. Plantlike, but not quite plants, fungi are rootless and leafless, consist of tiny threads (hyphae) tangled in a mass (mycelium) that can grow as much as half a mile in 24 hours. Lacking chlorophyll, fungi cannot make their own food, batten instead on fabric, fur, fat, paint, plants, plastics, skeletons, cold cream, jet fuel and people. One species can survive only on the left hind leg of a water beetle. Most fungi reproduce by the sexual union of two different spores, sometimes drop hundreds 'of millions of spores in three or four days. Most of them...
...that county." Elsewhere, 22 Negro teachers in four Arkansas school systems being integrated have been told that they will not be rehired, and ten Negro teachers in Texas claim to have been dismissed because of integration shifts. Since integration is barely getting out of token status, thousands of fur ther firings seem likely in the future...