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Another redskin tried his hand at scalping and went to work on the coonskin hat of an opponent. The hat, however, was tied on, so no damage was done, at least...

Author: By Cleveland Amory, | Title: Ten Students, in Indian Garb, Raid Big Pioneer Expedition | 12/10/1937 | See Source »

Harry Aloysius McGuire wore the first coonskin coat ever seen on the campus of Notre Dame University, edited the student Scholastic, was suspended for burlesquing the prefect of discipline, became class poet, class orator and was graduated in 1925 with the highest grades ever recorded at the University. On Commencement Day Notre Dame's president was heard to mutter that he was relieved to see the last of Harry McGuire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Ringmaster | 4/13/1936 | See Source »

...convenance to a Spanish grandee, disguises herself as a peasant girl and joins a boatload of female emigrants whom the King is shipping to New Orleans as brides for his colonists. In New Orleans, Marietta (Jeanette MacDonald) promptly makes the acquaintance of a dashing young soldier (Eddy) in a coonskin cap. There are obstacles to their romance: to avoid marrying a colonist, Marietta gives the Governor (Frank Morgan) a lurid account of her past. Just when it occurs to the soldier to regard this as fiction, the Spanish Grandee arrives to carry his fiancee back to France. Nonetheless, when last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures: Apr. 1, 1935 | 4/1/1935 | See Source »

Warburg's Villain is a typical college "drunk" who wears a coonskin coat and tries to make love to the heroine. But she is infatuated with a footballer (Charles Laskey) who, badly banged up after a game, is carried in on the shoulders of adoring young Yalemen. Left alone with the heroine he tackles her at the knees, rolls her over, suddenly becomes exhausted and limp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Horseplay at Hartford | 12/17/1934 | See Source »

...historic situation, Playwright Anderson, with a free exercise of dramatic license, presents General Washington and his men for five sombre days in January, 1778. Scene I is a bunk house at Valley Forge. A squad of Virginians, starved, half-naked scarecrows with rags on their feet and bits of coonskin on their heads, have been issued their evening meal. It is so crawling vile the wretches spew it out. A pair of long-hunters are about ready to go home when General Washington and his staff stride by, looking for men with whole shoes to go on a foraging expedition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Washington, by Anderson | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

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