Word: coonskin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing that somewhere within the sheets there lies a two pound flounder; for hazing, too, at Dartmouth has passed in to history...
...occasionally on the flute, has written a Melody in a Major which Violinist Fritz Kreisler rendered in a public concert at London last May and which thereupon became a best-seller throughout Britain. But Ambassador Dawes is always first & foremost a 100% "Amurrican." Just as Benjamin Franklin wore a coonskin cap in Paris and the late Alexander Pollock Moore gave stock-market tips and slapped backs in Madrid, so Ambassador Dawes strives to do that which is expected of him by the English. He might welcome U. S. college jazz bands to the court of St. James's (as Moore...
...opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...
...wreath sent from Stratford-on-Avon to Manhattan was placed at the foot of Shakespeare's statue in Central Park last week by a bleak, shivering little knot of people who were movietoned by two uncouth persons in great coonskin coats. Miss Eva LeGallienne, leading upliftress of Manhattan drama, laid the wreath. Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker, ill, was represented by a Mr. Strassburger...
...father's store, ushered at the village theatre, bought himself a saxophone. Shrewd, he taught himself fine points of technique by aping Saxophonist Rudy Wiedoeft on the phonograph. Thence his nickname, bestowed by mates at the University of Maine. He transferred to Yale, worked his way through (including coonskin coat) by playing at dances. In 1927 he started his career as a full-fledged jazzman. In May he married but this is suppressed in his autobiography, perhaps because the marriage was annulled after three months, perhaps because a professional love-crooner publicizes better as an untrammeled soul. Just...