Word: coonskin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor." Indeed, Houston looked it: 6 ft. 3 in. in moccasins, straight as an arrow, with deep, flashing eyes, high forehead, dressed like a frontiersman in leggings, hunting shirt and coonskin...
...that Daniel Webster was expelled form Exeter have apparently assumed that the great American public usually demands from its statesmen an intimate knowledge of past and present lore. But that such an analysis is hasty and superficial is proved rather conclusively by the history of presidential elections, in which coonskin cap, log cabin, and campaign song, to say nothing of the cider barrel, have easily overshadowed in importance the sonorous orations of far-sighted politicians...
Precedent gives this a portent. The "chummy roadster" definitely abolished the bustle, and Coles Phillips popularized the silk stocking; surely rain can do as much for oilcloth. The next football season should find the well-dressed man discarding his coonskin coat and Oxford brogues for the yellow oilskin and rubber boots hitherto sacred to the fishing boats of Gloucester; and in order to preserve the sport writer's usual "touch of color", Paquin and Joseph may even be driven to turning out their vivid designs in fabric guaranteed to save the permanent wave...
...never wore an overcoat or a hat, except a coonskin cap in Winter...