Word: mink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOMETHING WILD"-Stone, 48 East 86th. Three avant-gardians, each doing what he knows best. Apple Grower George Wardlaw sculpts and paints apples-green, delicious, crab, rotten and otherwise; ex-Mink Farmer Joseph Kurhajec makes fetishes of ferocity from blowtorched sheepskin, muskrat pelts, ram horns and chicken feathers; Rugmaker Dorothy Grebenak hand-weaves tapestries of U.S. Treasury bills, Con Edison manhole covers, even a nubby facsimile of a Gordon's gin label. Through...
...replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained his dandy image with such outfits as a mink-collared ulster, paisley scarf, brown Borsalino hat, sapphire-studded watch, and cigarette case inscribed "To Adolphe Menjou, from his warmest admirer, Adolphe Menjou"; of hepatitis; in Beverly Hills...
...outside and carrying signs with such labored slogans as NHU DEAL is NHU DIEM GOOD. They pounded on the doors, splattered the building with eggs and rattled the windows while she spoke. Inside, things were not much better. When Mme. Nhu, sheathed in brocade and silk and trailing a mink stole, complained that "Americans in Viet Nam do not live like us ... austerely like us," the crowd of 1,700 hissed loudly...
...Waldorf-Astoria, more than 1,000 people jammed the Grand Ballroom for an Overseas Press Club luncheon, with women in mink heavily outnumbering the working newsmen. "Is she 40?" asked one matron, marveling at the youthful appearance of the tiny figure on the dais. "I can't believe it." (She is 39.) Commented another, "You don't have nails like that and do much around the house...
...physical strength just doesn't equal my moral strength," murmured the tiny 'dragon lady' of South Vietnam, as she pulled her mink stole around her and slumped into an easy chair. It had been a long day of interviews and plane trips. Two hours before, she had finished her speech in the Cabot Hall living room. Now she was resting briefly before confronting the Law School Forum...