Word: furse
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It was a village teeming with overland adventurers (coureurs des bois), boatmen (voyageurs), townsmen (habitants). "There were spruce military men from the American garrison which had been placed over the village when it passed from French rule four years ago. ... To a Quaker it was strange for a town to...
It took 40 days from Pittsburgh to St. Louis; it took longer being towed back. The Pittsburgh middlemen squinted at Shreve's furs, offered him small change. Ignoring the tradition that Pittsburgh middlemen monopolized the fur trade with the East, Shreve loaded his furs on wagons, carted them over...
Liquor stores, fur shops, jewelers helped the panic along by advertising the increase in taxes. Their warnings ranged from the bald admonition, "Buy now, before prices go up!" to such come-ons as Jaekel's (furs): "Buy in haste, rejoice at leisure!"
Last week Adolf Hitler ordered the requisitioning of all skis, ski poles and snowshoes in Germany, all furs suitable for military wear.
The ever-growing curse of the congested business streets of most big cities is their lack of coordination. Manhattan's Sixth Avenue has been one of the world's most turbulent and cross-purposed examples. Its elevated railway, originally constructed for steam trains, clattered relentlessly over a darkened...