Word: minked
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...reigning musical-comedy queen; F. Scott Fitzgerald had not only been enthusiastically revived, but was the hero of a novel that led the bestseller lists. Nightclubs were jammed, theater tickets occasionally went for $50 apiece, and useless luxuries-men's garters trimmed in 14-carat gold, mink scarves for three-year-olds, diamond-studded car keys-were salable items again. In an offhand manner, a Houston oilman sent a new Cadillac to Europe to have a $5,000 custom body put on its chassis, with instructions to "throw the old body away...
...just send it off in installments to [the publisher]." Her most "lyrical prose" results, she says, "from the anticipation of big checks from my publishers and the book clubs. My best writing has been done . . . when I had a new car, a new home, a trip, or a mink coat in mind...
Typewriter in hand and mink coat clearly in mind, Novelist Caldwell has batted out twelve bestsellers (3,215,300 copies) in the last twelve years. With her 13th novel, busy ex-Court Reporter Caldwell proves once again that she still types very quickly...
Police Protection. In Milwaukee, when Mrs. Helen Bohn complained that her furrier would not return her Silverblu mink to her, police arrested her for stealing the mink in the first place...
...administration section, already had his overcoat on. Where were his men? "All gone," Lee said. He himself was planning to go all the way to Seoul, taking his wife and seven children. How would they go? "Probably walk," said Lee. A man in a black overcoat with a mink collar joined the conversation. But another man came in, whispered "The car is ready," and the man in the mink collar left immediately...