Word: mink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just past midnight. The 300 guests have emerged from the gaily trimmed dining tents, and are now doing the cha cha cha on the wooden dance floor that covers part of the lawn. A champagne fountain burbles into the hollow-stem crystalware. The hostess snuggles her mink stole over her airy Howard Greer original. The host pats his cummerbund and stares expansively at his Thunderbird convertible in the drive. Then he surveys the whole scene and realizes that he is not the master of a blessed thing he surveys. The tents, the chairs, the band, the dance floor, the artificial...
...bank. Already into the Giants for $65,200 in salary advances and $8,641 in hock to the revenooers, the "Say Hey" center fielder faced further depredations from his estranged wife Marghuerite (who indignantly denies Mays's charge that she "goes for $400 shoes and $8,000 mink coats"). Moaned Willie's attorney, who was fighting to un-sweeten Marghuerite's separation fee in a California court: "I hoped to be Willie's financial adviser, but it's turned out that I'm just a scorekeeper...
...shelf (did Jackie overexpose it?) to be replaced by small, back-of-the-head berets of lizard and other exotic game, while furry cuffs and banding tone up the dresses. Fringed shawls in brocades, silks and satins are widely shown. Branell, among others, dresses up a daytime suit with mink...
...home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat,'' said its owner. "This engine was souped up until it can't be no more without blowing up." Near by cruised a soft, inboard on whose stern was mounted a mink-lined doghouse, home for the pink toy poodle of its master's pink-haired wife...
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...