Word: minked
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Ellen Drew, onetime soda jerker, took off her mink coat and mixed a soda for photographers in a Manhattan drugstore...
...Hello, America, Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, the Russian opera and ballet-altogether ten musical shows, six plays. Patrons could go home to clean, comfortable shelters or into tubes accom modating 20 millions. Cabbies were thankful for a sixpence. Hotel lounges brightened at the reappearance of formal gowns, mink and ermine wraps. The Queen and Princesses Christmas-shopped at Fortnum & Mason's. The emu was content...
...profit. Swapping went on furiously all day and most of the night; some horses changed hands a dozen times. Included were some good work horses, a few riding horses. But most were plugs worth less than $25; some were bought by tallow-rendering companies, some as food for mink farms. Horse traders expect to be gypped but always hope to gyp the other fellow a little more. Said one dealer of a runty mare he had just bought: "I've owned her a hundred times in the last couple of years and she can't pull a kiddie...
...dash of bitters. Last week rancorous, cantankerous Mr. Tobey was out front again for his first real headlines since his passion for picayune causes led him to denounce the U.S. Census last year as regimentation. Three weeks ago his sensitive neb caught the scent of convoys. Quick as a mink he came out with an anti-convoy resolution. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee quietly interred the resolution in a pigeonhole. Last week his suspicions that the President planned to convoy had passed into certainty. He decided that the President had already secretly ordered convoys...
...fatigue around his eyes. There was none in his manner. Through a hot half-hour the citizens stirred restlessly while his prepared statement was mimeographed; he talked quietly with the Senators near him about his trip from Europe and the war. The crowd was miscellaneous: Senators' wives, mink-coated and opinionated; Washington's isolationists, scornful and expectant; friends of committee members, waiting for their champions to tear down Willkie's testimony; plain citizens, patient and interested...