Word: furs
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...knees, pretends that its hearing is not very good, cannot dance, has only a vague idea of what is going on, is cheerfully disparaged by the populace, and is judged by historians to have been extremely successful. So it was when Ben Franklin popped up in Paris wearing a fur cap instead of a wig. So it was when General Schenck (less successfully) "became the lion of the hour when he introduced draw poker into London society." And so it was last week when U. S. foreign policy and the U. S. State Department made plenty of news...
...needs a short fur coat in exchange for a fat goose...
...second birthday Pins and Needles had played 865 Broadway performances; longest previous run for a musical show was Irene, with 670. Every girl in the cast now sports a fur coat with a union label...
Nancy Brown at 69 is small, gentle, spry. Every year since 1934 she has held a religious service on Belle Isle (between Detroit and Windsor, Ont.) at sunrise on Easter Morning. At these services Nancy buries herself in the crowd, her face hidden in the fur collar of her coat. Few of her contributors know her real name, and she knows few of theirs...
...That a fur workers' union borrowed $1,750,000 from the late Gambler Arnold Rothstein, hired "Legs" Diamond to do its dirty work...