Word: coons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope from Chugwater, Wyo. Also a big batch of coon, possum and .'taters from Alabama's First Congressional District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon to wash down the appetizers, there was the dinner itself-fresh shrimp, green turtle soup, Steak Rayburn (a double-cut smothered...
...also the time for county fairs-for merry-go-round music, spun sugar, and the sight of prize cakes, prize cattle and sullen hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited bird dogs. Coon hunters were already going out at night, tin lanterns in hand, in Iowa and Connecticut. There would be other game soon-pheasants were fat, honkers were winging south in high Vs and deer were beginning their migration from high country...
Bound by that stern poetic creed, Louisiana Story traces a symbolic story. The wallowing amphibious machines of an oil company invade the idyllic peace of a Louisiana bayou. Flaherty juxtaposes a tense chase sequence-alligator v. coon in the swamp water-and the tumultuous pursuit of oil by the monster, man-made drilling derricks which can plunge pipes 14,000 feet into the earth. Throughout this blending of themes, the bonds of humanity between oil riggers and a Cajun boy illumine the recurrent thesis of Flaherty's works: "Mankind is one community...
...Cocksure little Al Trace was packing a spot where anyone had to be both good and loud to blow away the memories of more memorable bands-the famed Coon-Sanders orchestra; or Ben Pollack's band, which featured a young trombonist named Glenn Miller and a clarinetist named Benny Goodman. Kay Kyser had started his College of Musical Knowledge there...
...huge newspaper ads to revile Browning and Kefauver. He repeated old slurs on 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...