Word: minks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When reporters asked her to identify the brown fur coat she wore over an ankle-length, brown Chinese gown she spelled it out: "N-u-t-r-i-a." Then, with a glance at Mrs. Marshall's smart mink, she said, "It's an old fur coat, and it's out of style, but it's warm." When the two ladies were seated to be photographed, she smiled at Mrs. Marshall and asked, "Are we supposed to look at each other lovingly...
...them shrimp and mushrooms and showed them the house. She had discussed her artesian well ("We had to dig 260 feet, and we finally hit 25 gallons a minute"), her health ("I have the arteries of a girl of 16"), her finances ("I haven't bought a mink coat since 1934, for god's sake"), how she hates the theater ("I'd rather play cards or go to a ball game"), Private Lives ("I said to Noel before he saw it, 'anything you don't like we'll take out' "), her home...
Without his expensive extras, man is a bare-skinned tropical animal. Unlike the mink, he has no fur coat of his own; unlike the robin, he cannot fly south under his own power. If he insists on living in cold countries, he must create small areas of artificial tropics and stay in them most of the winter. He calls these refuges "buildings," and he is forever trying to make them more comfortable...
...Ascot, or playing poker with stagehands. She can quote readily, and at impressive length, from the Bible, Shakespeare, and a lavatory wall. Onstage she is gowned by famous designers (she was once called the "world's only volcano dressed by Mainbocher"). Offstage, she prefers slacks and a mink coat. Hollywood didn't know what to make of her, but London adored her for eight wild years...
...University of Wisconsin's Conrad A. Elvehjem did another series of experiments for Agene's makers, Wallace & Tiernan of Newark; on an Agenized diet, cats, rabbits, mink and dogs developed fits. Experimenters sometimes found the brain cells of Agenized dogs shrunken, misshapen or missing. A similar diet had no bad effects on 20 human guinea pigs. Nonetheless, Dr. Anton J. Carlson, dean of U.S. physiologists, announced last winter (TIME, Jan. 12) that Agene may make the eater nervous...