Word: furs
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...native girl, who died of cholera the day after he got her. When the plague caught up to him he met his death crying ecstatically, "I am purified." His beautiful Spanish wife had abandoned him when he collapsed with fever. Heading for Shanghai in the company of a Chinese fur merchant, she exhausted her last will power in fleeing from her host's insidious attentions, was easily hypnotized by her next Chinese escort, who sold her into prostitution: a fate which left her spiritually clear-eyed, "inexplicably passive and serene," for the first time in her life...
...faqade of rare stone from her rich mines; Austria is a building the whole front of which is a glass serving to frame a gigantic photograph at the rear, so that one seems to look not at a structure but at Alpine heights; and Norway is all beer, fur and skis. Beyond lies Italy, a pavilion where oranges and lemons arrive each day so completely ripe and fresh from the groves, that no sugar is used in either the orangeade or lemonade. Sour are huge propaganda pictures showing such "atrocities" as Ethiopian blacks lashed by the whips of Haile Selassie...
...goods store window dressers have always quickly aped every Paris exposition and last week in Manhattan swank Saks-Fifth Avenue filled its windows with similar naked mannequins and fur coats flung about. Result: most women walkers on Fifth Avenue hurried past the little knots who gathered to gaze and scoff...
BUCKSKIN BRIGADES-L. Ron Hubbard-Macaulay ($2). Indignant tale about the Northwest fur trade, featuring a white hero who fought on the side of the Blackfeet Indians...
...rodent about ten inches long. It resembles a cross between a squirrel and a rabbit, with the squirrel's tail. Largest supply lives in Bolivia, Peru & Chile at altitudes between 12,000 and 19,000 feet. Chinchillas live gregariously in rocky burrows, eat leaves and nuts. The prime fur is so dense that fleas and lice cannot penetrate it. Each hair is tipped with black, slate blue about half its length, merging into a delicate pearl grey. Difficult to capture alive, chinchillas are shot by Indians with blow-guns using poisoned darts. The wound is only a pinprick, does...