Word: coonskin
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...Ready for the opening of school next month, Chicago department stores are featuring: for kindergarten, coonskin caps; for finger-painting class, dusters and smocks; for boys of seven and up, a ten-way suit with jacket & pants to match, extra pants of another color, a vest that is a solid color on one side and plaid on the other...
That winter, the renowned Harvard owl had taken up residence in the Yard, and coonskin-clad candidates chased him from tree to tree 'mid encouraging hoots from the spectators...
When Richard Dyer-Bennet sang at Cabot Hall last week, he wore a tuxedo. He had no raucous accent, no sack of coonskin tales, and his shoes and his guitar were clean. While Dyer-Bennet was less colorful than the night-club hand, he was more effective because he was a musician with folk-song only as part of his repertoire...
...Browning ("Of the 206 bones in his body, there isn't one that is genuine . . . His heart has beaten over two billion times without a sincere beat"). He called Kefauver an "oxblood Red" and "pet coon." Kefauver turned the attack to his own advantage by donning a coonskin cap and invading the boss's own Shelby County (Memphis) five times...
...RedHaired Wife." Most Tennesseans knew that Estes Kefauver was no more a Communist than Ed Crump himself. They liked his showmanship and the way he stayed un-Crumpled. When he invaded Memphis he wore a coonskin cap, drew big crowds. Trumpeted his followers: "If there is anything red about him it is his red-blooded Americanism and his beautiful red-haired wife...