Word: minked
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Inside the theatre, lobby and aisles are jammed. Chinchilla arrives to snub ermine and mink. Amid the babel of voices can be heard the high British squeak, languid Southern drawl. Continental roll of rs, marcelled New Yorkese. Down in front, as she has been at nearly every Broadway first night for over 20 years, sits elderly, fragile Mrs. Rita Katzenberg...
...Minks are famed for their ravenous appetites, their expensive pelts, their cannibalistic habit of devouring their young when frightened. Last week in Astoria, Ore., William and Emil Urell, operators of a mink farm, appeared before a board of officers from a nearby Coast Guard station, claimed the U. S. Coast Guard owed them $6,750 for damages. Right after the whelping season, they testified, a Coast Guard amphibian plane whizzed over their farm within 150 feet of the ground. The mother minks, terror-stricken by the drumming racket, dashed wildly about the cages, seized their 270 mink kittens, gobbled them...
...February 1937 "The Mink" was in Barcelona consorting with Soviet dignitaries who had arrived from Russia to assist Leftist Spain. Manhattan's anarchist paper, Il Martello, on Feb. 28, 1938 devoted its leading article to "The Mink" on the theory that he was Joseph Stalin's trigger man and Assassin Extraordinary...
Four weeks ago "The Mink" was reported in Manhattan, and its Trotskyists were convinced last week that he had taken a freighter to Galveston, Tex., thence would proceed to Mexico City and try to get Trotskyist...
Liston Oak and Harry Milton, U. S. citizens who have fought for Leftist Spain and returned to the U. S., avowed in Manhattan last week their belief that "The Mink" functioned for months in Barcelona as its most dread Stalin Secret Political Police agent...