Word: furs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's biggest public library is actually a private triumph-the work of three rich, generous New Yorkers who never saw the final result. In 1848 immigrant Fur Tycoon John Jacob Astor left $400,000 to start the Astor Library; in 1870 wealthy Bibliophile James Lenox gave $300,000 for a public library to house his own superb collection; in 1886 onetime Governor Samuel Tilden left $2,000,000 for "a free library and reading room.'' With another $5,200,000 from Andrew Carnegie for branch libraries, the Astor-Lenox-Tilden benefactions launched the New York Public...
...script offers only an occasional chuckle. General: "Hurry up; General Eisenhower is waiting." Danny: "Well, tell him not to. I don't do him." When he is captured, Danny gets a reel and a half of pantomime in which to play a Gestapo agent, a Luftwaffe pilot, a fur-wrapped matron and Marlene Dietrich (singing Cocktails for Zwei). It's funny-but it seems to have been lobbed in because the script was getting just too dull for words...
EXETER: The first ten minutes of Make Mire Mink are sickeningly dismal, as only British farce can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining 80 minutes, happy to tell, are sheer joy. Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding-house occupants on a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds, naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...
EXETER: The first ten minutes MAKE MINE MINK are sickeningly dismal, as only a British fare can be sickeningly dismal; but the remaining eighty minutes, happy to tell, are shear joy, Terry-Thomas leads a crew of balmy boarding house occupants in a series of impossible fur robberies. Proceeds naturally, go to various local orphanages. Evenings...
...pronounces Walter Kerr with critical accuracy, "am a hell of a lot neater than she is.") She buys enough cosmetics to underwrite a television program, spends hours and fortunes at the hairdresser, but cares little for clothes, buying cut-rate bargains. She has been wearing the same grey-fur-collared cloth coat to Broadway openings for years, frequently with a button missing...