Word: minks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opened last week's show by announcing: "My rich, velvety baritone is ready to bring you . . . songs that all America never heard of." Abe's song titles include: I've Got a Gal in Calico Who's Dying for a Mink and You Ate Up a Hunk of My Heart...
...public still thinks of the Bay in terms of the far north where bitter winters grow thick, smooth fur on Arctic foxes, mink, muskrats, fishers and beavers. But furs are not the company's only concern. Actually, the 15,000 trappers from whom, the company buys are a less valuable asset than the far greater number of Canadians to whom it sells through six large department stores and 15 smaller stores. Sir Patrick likes to tell how this came about...
...right, dear, tell me all about it....Well, he says it's pretty serious. . . . Oh, come on, you can't fool me. Are you in love with him? . . . Now look, dear, I always ask personal questions....Well, how do you get a man to hang that much mink around your neck if you're not serious about him?...I know you're hedging. You can't fool Hopper....Well, you can answer whether you're in love with the guy and intend to marry him....Now look, Joan, I've known...
Dorothy Kirsten, Met soprano, was left on the dock. She had come down, bag & handsome baggage, hoping to pick up a canceled reservation, but couldn't. "I feel . . . jilted," she pouted, adjusting her mink stole. Her pressagent said a pitiless reporter pried open one of her fortnighters to see if there was really something inside. There really was, the pressagent reported...
...common bonds of religion and blood which unite Spaniards and Argentines. It also involved some fancy costuming. It was the hottest day of the year when Evita got the diamond-encrusted Grand Cross of Isabel la Católica from Dictator Franco; but she wore a full-length mink cape. At the special performance of Lope de Vega's classic Spanish drama, Fuente Ovejuna in the Teatro Español, Evita turned up in a long cape of ostrich feathers. At the bullfight, which she held up half an hour by arriving late (the opening was never delayed...