Word: coons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prologue" and the Tiffany (Exacting Standards) advertisement on the final page. Vide such delicatessen as "Do you own much in Flerida?" and its answer: "Oh, lots and lots," or "She: You look much better without those glasses. He: So do you" and even the whiskered one about the coon who burns his finger on the "damned stove" while his wife asks "Why didn't you feel the stove before you put your finger...
...signified his willingness to match tunes with the Maine player. Bob claims to have over one hundred different pieces, where Mellie has only three or four, but the piccolo player declares that with a little practice he can become profficient in "Turkey in the Straw" and "Old Zip Coon" as well...
...translations into Attic Greek and into Latin. Walter Thomas Pattison '25 of Wilmette, Ill., was awarded the Susan Anthony Potter Prize in Spanish Literature for his essay dealing with the Spanish writing of the Golden Age. A Frederick Sheldon Fellowship in Anthropology was awarded to Carleton Stevens Coon of Wakefield...
Reynolds and Thompson seem able to hold down the center position between them and Coaches Kellison and Fenwick are not worrying as much about this place as over the other forward berths, Cochrill, Mackall, Fink, Peyton, Rainy, Barieasas, and Hankins, guards, and Tyler, Lacy, Coon, Glauber, Gleaves, Claiborne, and Hayman, tackles, are being given extra hard drills in line play each afternoon...
Most people considered Jack Johnson a cooked coon when the doors of Leavenworth Prison closed behind him. Not so Johnson. He has signed articles to fight Erminio Spalla, Italian champion who aroused Premier Mussolini to ecstatic eulogy, in Newark during the latter part of August. Owing to Johnson's age and his criminal activities, it is doubtful whether the authorities will countenance the bout...