Word: furs
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...light bulb that a prankish customer had removed. He lit a match. It touched one of the artificial palm trees that gave the Cocoanut Grove its atmosphere; a few flames shot up. A girl named Joyce Spector sauntered toward the checkroom because she was worried about her new fur coat...
...Englishmen dressing for dinner in the jungle. Among the attendant owners of rare baubles, rare pelts, rare beauty or simply rare old blood (see cuts): Mrs. Byron Foy (sapphires and diamonds); Mrs. Walter Moving (ermine); Emily Roosevelt (fifth cousin of the President) ; Mrs. John Jacob Astor (of the onetime fur-trapping Astors, pictured furless); Valerie Moore (silver fox); Mrs. Whitney Bourne (kith to the Boston Whitneys); Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (ermine, a diamond tiara, a diamond & emerald necklace & pendant, diamond earrings, eleven diamond bracelets); Mrs. William Ellerbe (blonde), Nedenia Hutton...
Curvilinear Cinemactress Joan Blondell got herself a fresh hairdo, a new fur coat, headed for Greenland and Iceland to entertain the armed forces. Manhattan socialite Edith Kingdon Gould, linguist (5), ex-child-poetess, 22-year-old great-granddaughter of the late, great Robber Baron Jay Gould, joined the WAVES, went off to train at Madison...
Indirectly the President made a little effort to smooth Congress' fur. He announced that he saw no need to draft 18-and 19-year-olds until next year. That announcement took the heat off Congress for dodging that responsibility until after election. It was like a gesture saying "we are all politicians together...
...Flushed faces, crimson banners, light laughs, punches in the room, the House dances; but all of that was last year's stuff. At the end there was always the Yale game. Vag remembered the November morning last year, when he met Elizabeth at the station. She was wearing a fur cape, he knew she would be. All he could say was "Hello," and he thought of all he had to tell her in those two crowded days. He bought her flowers for the game, and she cheered for Yale when Harvard was ahead. After the game she was sitting...