Word: coons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Phinizy County, Tenn. (it is not on the map) was a rough place in some ways before it got civilized. In those days the first citizen was Old Bas Younger, who brought his clan to settle Hoop Pole Ridge and was he-coon there till he died at 100. Old Bas died while he was making a political oration on the Fourth of July and got too excited cussing the Republican candidate, Abe Lincoln. Phinizy County had begun to get a little sissified by the time Young Bas took over the he-coonship at 70. Richard Whiting, who bought land...
...climb trees, photographs which filtered into metropolitan circulation last week furnished proof of a startling exception. At Clyde, Kans.- 200 mi. down the Republican River from the scene of the historic Indian ambush currently depicted in The Plainsman- were run late in February the sixth annual Republican Valley Coon Hound Field Trials. Goal of the free-for-all race was a tree in which a live raccoon was tied high and safe. First to reach the tree was a 4-year-old redbone coon hound named Rudd. The race was over but Rudd did not know it. Up the slightly...
Other main addresses before the Association, some of which were held at the Faculty Club, included those by Drs. Herbert I. Margolis, Lawrence W. Baker, Carl T. Nelson '28, H. T. E. Hertzberg, Carl Seltzer '29, D. B. Dill, and Carleton S. Coon '25, all of the University...
...course she was--trust the playwright for that!--by her husband, father, fiance, brother, or by any member of the cast except one of the servants,--after being so found, it was conventionally assumed by the audience that her honor was no more. She was "a gone coon," and the play could continue. In other words, it was not going there that compromised her, it was being caught there...
Chief event of the day was the appearance towards the end of the afternoon, of papa coon, mama, and sonny (height 3 feet 6 1/2 inches. The latter was dubbed Harvard's star fullback...