Word: minked
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...street wears its usual mask of myrrh and mink; crowds still complain about the crowds; but padlocked boxes have replaced Salvation Army tambourines. Inside the big stores, cheese cloth cherubs still butter among the silvered spine boughs, but it now costs a quarter to see Santa Claus...
...although below last year's record. In Amarillo, Texas, the seventh annual National Square Dance and Callers' Contest was held, and Manhattan society watched the opening of the 64th National Horse Show. Among the spectators, it was noted, ermine was definitely passe, having been replaced by white mink, which may be a purification symbol...
...hour-long program, called "Crusade in America." From Eisenhower and Nixon seated together informally in Boston, it flashed across the country, reaching party voices as distant as California's Governor Earl Warren, picking up issues of the campaign (e.g., a cinema snatch of Theron Lamar Caudle, of mink coat fame, testifying before congressional investigators), returning to Ike at midnight for a last brief appeal...
Meat for the Mink. For generations, Newfoundlanders have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
...tentlike sweaters go, the dressmaker sweaters make their appearance. Sweaters have little scalloped collars, odd sleeves, and fancy embroidery. Since they are now de rigeur for evening wear, some of the most luxurious cashmeres come embroidered with pearls and bugle beads, or trimmed with mink at the neck and cuffs. The classic cashmere, often of purest white, is worn with a jumbled treasure-house of beads, necklaces, and pearls again, or with a fantastic pseudo-Renaissance choker or a vast bib of phoney gems...