Word: muff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Famed in Chicago is Pianist Moissaye Boguslawski for the muff which he wears in winter to protect his talented fingers from the stiffening cold of Lake Michigan's bitter breezes (see cut). Another stunt of "Bogie" Boguslawski was to play for Chicago's Station WJJD all the piano music of Bach, all the sonatas of Beethoven, in what he called a "musical marathon." Beethoven took nine weeks, Bach twelve. Two years ago Mr. Boguslawski said the music produced by most contemporary composers "gave him the hiccoughs." Fortnight ago this ebullient musician came out as a composer himself...
...Muffs It would be too bad if a lady about to be presented at Buckingham Palace should whip a pistol out of her muff. That Scotland Yard had put this idea into Queen Mary's head was London's impression last week when the Lord Chamberlain announced, ''Her Majesty desires that muffs be not worn...
Furs are used extensively for trimming and edging, but big fur collars are frowned upon. Most amusing fur note is an Astrakhan muff shaped like a dachshund. Hats, also exotic, feature the stovepipe which sits high on the head, the Francois Villon, and the tiny velvet head turban with three and only three feathers. Skirts are split, but not notably longer than last year, varying from floor length to 15 in. above the floor. Trains are conspicuously absent. Predominant dress colors are black, "poison" green, purple...
...section hand. . . . You are above the common herd, although you don't get paid for it. . . . This is a struggle between the wage earners and the dividend collectors. . . . 'I say you have to become militant. . . . You have a great chance to do something famous, so do not muff the ball by getting on too high a plane. As long as the boys downstairs are running the presses you still have a newspaper, so don't get too much above them...
...sizzling dynamite in the Stavisky scandal was temporarily quenched by referring the entire matter to an investigating committee of 44 Deputies, a group unwieldy enough almost certainly to muff the investigation. In Paris and the provinces workmen hurried to replace broken pillars, smashed street lights, shop windows, fire hydrants-every trace of last fortnight's bloody riots. The Cabinet did its best to give taxpayers something else to think about. A snarling tariff war with Britain got under way (see p. 13). Foreign Minister Louis Barthou sent a blunt answer to Germany's latest demand for rearmament...