Word: minked
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float displaying working girls in mink coats, a rather hopeful hint from labor...
...said, "I don't think I can say any more than that my husband and I have separated." Next day, still escorted by Frankie, and tastefully clad in mink over shocking-pink cotton stockings ("They're divinely warm," she said), Gloria played hide-and-seek with the press, pausing only to insist that "this separation has nothing to do with any third person." Courtly to the last, her abandoned husband took pity on newsmen stamping their feet in the cold outside his Gracie Square home and invited them in for hot coffee, served, a grateful reporter noted...
...capital, the dark-haired 22-year-old Queen, snuggled in an opulent blue mink coat, dazzled everyone. Because their visit was informal ("he's paying his own way," said a protocol officer), the royal couple put up at the imposing pink-brick Iranian embassy instead of the White House. But the Eisenhowers had them over to lunch, and Mamie showed Soraya around the place...
Manhattan's Town Hall was cold and empty one morning last week, as a small, dark-haired woman deposited her mink coat and shawl on a stage table, set up her metronome, covered her shoulders with a sweater, and sat down at the concert grand. For the next two hours she worked from page to page of Beethoven's "Waldstein" Sonata, starting at dead-slow tempo, one hand at a time, working up to half tempo, patiently repeating certain figures again and again, uncovering little melodies hidden in the passagework, testing the spaces between chords for the precise...
...staffer on Broadway's weekly trade sheet Billboard, became more and more embarrassed. The trip, he decided, was a terrible mistake. He had forgotten how low burlesque had sunk. But his students showed nothing but scholarly interest in the struts, bumps and grinds, the unprintable gags. Gushed one mink-coated student: "I always thought it was much, much worse than this...