Word: coonskin
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...vaudeville, finally bows to a Communist-assassin's bullet, and becomes in death the martyred hero of the fascist "Leather Shirts." a nationwide organization fostered by Lemuel's canny friend. Shagpoke. Pitkin's Birthday is made a national holiday, and Shagpoke's leather-shirted, coonskin-hatted legions. 100,000 strong, parade in his honor. Lemuel Pitkin, dismantled bodily, is a spiritual success...
...Piping Rock is the site of an oldtime Indian trading post which fires Poet Ryan's imagination. One day lately he was observed at this site, a quiet spot in the woods. His yellow Rolls-Royce (with burnished metal bonnet) was parked nearby. He was clad in a coonskin coat with Daniel Boone cap to match, sitting on the ground trapper-style, thoughtfully making a little camp fire...
...school days remains for the first year man at Hanover; he must wear a green skull cap with a white button on top. But he need no longer salute his professors with perfunctory respect, no longer need he wear a coat at all times, no longer must his Coonskin hang idle in his closet; nor must the wary freshman climb into bed of an evening fearing that somewhere within the sheets there lies a two pound flounder; for hazing, too, at Dartmouth has passed in to history...
...occasionally on the flute, has written a Melody in a Major which Violinist Fritz Kreisler rendered in a public concert at London last May and which thereupon became a best-seller throughout Britain. But Ambassador Dawes is always first & foremost a 100% "Amurrican." Just as Benjamin Franklin wore a coonskin cap in Paris and the late Alexander Pollock Moore gave stock-market tips and slapped backs in Madrid, so Ambassador Dawes strives to do that which is expected of him by the English. He might welcome U. S. college jazz bands to the court of St. James's (as Moore...
...opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...