Word: coons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skinning Coon. Democrat D'Alesandro faced big-league competition from the Republican mayoralty candidate: Samuel Hopkins, 41, a lawyer and businessman who was born on a Maryland farm, studied at the university founded by his great-great-uncle, Johns Hopkins. Sam Hopkins' cowlicked hair and easy personality seemed so appealing that Democratic District Boss Jack Pollack complained: "He wasn't born in a log cabin and he doesn't wear a coonskin cap, but somehow he manages to give the impression that he was and does." Some of Republican Hopkins' support ers enthusiastically rushed...
Killin' & Drawin'. As their principal remedy, the quacks used a paste in an age-old combination: a "killin' salve" (sorrel and sweetgum bark) and a "drawin' salve" (chestnut-oak bark mixed with equal parts of "mutton tallow, pine resin and coon root"). For "small cancers, malignant or not": a salve made of the whites of two eggs, two teaspoonfuls of salt, one tablespoonful of bee honey, and a teaspoonful of bluestone dust...
...philosophy, literature, history and art. They took courses in logic, ethics, esthetics, gulped down big doses of music, economics, architecture, studied some of the major concepts in the social and natural sciences. Though their classwork was done mostly in seminars, they heard lectures by such scholars as Anthropologist Carleton Coon, City Planner Lewis Mumford, Yale's Henri Peyre (who spoke on Rousseau's Confessions), Brandeis University's Ludwig Lewisohn (Faust), Colby's President Julius Seelye Bixler ("Empirical Calculation of Consequences"), and Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm ("Psychology and Ethics"). They visited the U.N., the museums of Washington, Philadelphia...
...Vermonter-by-adoption, a church-state issue, however small, is like a hot scent to a coon hound. When Lawyer Paul Blanshard-whose bestselling American Freedom and Catholic Power launched him on a career of Catholic-needling-learned that the children in his own town of Thetford were getting a weekly half-hour of nonsectarian religious instruction in the classroom, he promptly went into action. Blanshard formally asked Education Commissioner A. John Holden Jr. to notify all Vermont's schools that "the teaching of religion in public schools as part of the regular schedule of instruction" was unlawful...
...suggest to Mr. Jenkins that he use the boar as his symbol in his coming bout with Senator Kefauver, who uses a coon...