Word: pelted
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...first auction in 23 years of the once fabulously expensive chinchilla; 2) the first formal sale of U.S.-raised chinchilla skins. Mindful of the $20,000 to $100,000 that chinchilla coats once brought, some furriers glibly forecast a fantastic $250 a pelt...
...made raccoons bear two litters a year instead of one, made goats breed in summer instead of winter, induced pheasants, which normally lay their eggs in April, to lay them on the snow in midwinter. By the same means, he fooled minks into growing a rich brown winter pelt in summer and shedding in winter, made weasels change their coats from brown to white and back to brown again most unseasonably...
...George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips Whidden, Richard Robinson Wood, Edward Woodward...
...longest-drawn-out casting to-do since Gone With the Wind, the juicy role of Maria in the forthcoming cine-version of For Whom the Bell Tolls went to dancing Musicomedienne Vera Zorina (born Eva Brigitta Hartwig). "Her hair . . . was but little longer than the fur on a beaver pelt," wrote Ernest Hemingway of his heroine, so off came the dancer's ash-blonde glory...
...Vaterland. Its menu was as ample and German as the Fräulein who handled it. I ordered, in English, beer and Apfelstrudel, and asked for the local daily newspaper. I got the Deutscher Beobachter, with a curt 'Bitte.' Near by, three American karakul-pelt buyers were deep in wartime prices. They spoke English. Everyone else in the room spoke German. On the wall a German poster announced a UFA film, Wenn der Hahn kräht. All around were pictures of Germany...