Word: coons
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...32nd Street: The wind sniffed like a happy cat At scuttling beetle-people, The sunshine would have roused a flat To try and be a steeple. My breakfast in me warm and staunch, Your letter in my pocket, The world's a coon that's climbed a branch And I am David Crockett...
...Dooley" commented on Booker T. Washington's dining at the White House: "I don't mind sayin' that I'd rather ate with a coon thin have wan wait on me. I'd sooner he'd handle his own food thin mine. F'r me, if anny thumb must be in th' gravy, lave it be white if ye please...
...Edith M. Coon, physics professor and vice principal of the Women's Christian College at Madras, India Litt.D...
...American College Publicity Association, meeting recently, passed resolutions to counteract the widespread publicity that "coon-skins coats and football games" have received in the past. It is their purpose to interest the public in education by releasing to newspapers and syndicates the most recent contributions of colleges and universities in the field of science, and research. This is without doubt a worthy aim. Wider publicity on scientific study is to be desired. But the fact remains that college sports are spectacular, and college scholarship is not. The emphasis placed by the press on sports is also partly the fault...
...prominent being Sir Alfred Butt, theatrical producer, and Sir Newton J. Moore, who twice upon a time was Premier of the province of Western Australia. Among the thousands who clipped and signed coupons enrolling them as "Empire Crusaders" was Sir Henry Segrave. world's fastest motorist. First ty coon to join the founders of the party was Sir Herbert Austin, the "Ford of Britain,'' who sees in the proposed high tariff wall his best defence against competition from the original Henry Ford...