Word: coy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime all-American-footballer (Yale captain, 1909); by Jeanne Eagles, independent actress (Rain, Her Cardboard Lover) recently suspended by Equity (TIME, April 16); in Chicago...
Sued for Divorce. Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, onetime all-American footballer (Yale 1909 captain); by Jeanne Eagels, famed actress (Rain); in Chicago. She charged cruelty, football tactics...
Acclaim. The Commons, warming to a ceremony which would last for many hours, elected by acclaim as Speaker onetime Queen's Page Fitzroy, now a grizzled War veteran of 58, wounded at Ypres and Klein Zillebecke. He, with a coy modesty demanded by ritual, first demurred at the too-great honor, and then submitted himself to what is known as the Superior Judgment of the House...
...pound crew Stroke, James de Narmandie '29; 7, H. W. Bragdon '28 6, Captain W. I. Gregg '28; 5, R. D. Rolsier '28; 4, F. F. Farnsworth '29, S. F. B. Lee '29; 2 J. A. Swords '29; bow, D. S. Staples '50; coy R. H. Miller...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, in an English accent and making a coy moue, said "That's for you, horrid man!" as she tossed a glass of champagne upon the front of Erskine Gwynne, foppish nephew of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The tossing occurred in a Paris cabaret, where Erskine Gwynne and Peggy Joyce were amusing themselves with separate parties. Erskine Gwynne had written an article called "Peggy Hotsprings Choice, Five Times a Bride but Never a Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together...