Word: coups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baldwin's most notable previous lottery coup (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929): for sixpence she bought the right to guess the names of a boy and a girl doll: guessed "Stanley" and "Lucy" (her husband's name and her own), won the dolls which had been thus named by the apple-cheeked girl in the booth. "I knew you d guess them!" cried she. "We named them 'specially in hopes you would...
...proclaimed King Mihai (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927). As he waited at the bleak Munich airdrome last week Carol talked earnestly with two members of Prime Minister Juliu Maniu's Cabinet who had flown up from Rumania to meet him. He was making no clandestine return, attempting no coup. He was welcome...
...First coup credited to Hearst strategy: capture of Peter Arno, most famed main drawing card among New Yorker's artists...
...presence of a Connecticut car causes the view in some quarters that the sacred bird was stolen by Yale undergraduates in reprisal for the Harvard paper's famed coup of the Yale fence last fall. At the time of writing no answer had been received from the Yale News in response to a query earlier in the evening whether the rumors are also current on the Eli campus. In most quarters, however, the suspicion prevails that the robbery is merely a myth invented by the Lampoon as another of its notorious publicity stunts for its forthcoming issue...
...warrior began when he was a few years old, for the Crows were surrounded with enemies: Sioux, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Piegans, Cheyennes, Shoshones, Flatheads, Gros Ventres. As a small boy his elders taught him how to steal meat from his own village, that later he might steal enemy horses, "count coup." "To count coup a warrior had to strike an armed and fighting enemy with his coupstick, quirt, or bow before otherwise harming him, or take his weapons while he was yet alive, or strike the first enemy falling in battle, no matter who killed him, or strike the enemy...