Word: coy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With zest, relish and a cast of two hundred, the production smacks its lips over the struggles of Greed, Idle Rich, Lust, Shame and the rest, to possess the dainty maiden's treasure. In the course of an artful procession of temptations, Pilgrim, after standing naked for one coy half-second, despatches Lust. The court returns a verdict of "Not Guilty" because Mother appeared in a miraculous vision to testify that homicide was justified. Finally, in accordance with parental instructions, the Pearl is bestowed upon Love...
Pipe In Stewart Landing, B. C., one Teeta-Wakee, 107-year old squaw, was accosted by a peddler. Rolling her rheumy eyes in coy alarm, she listened while the man attempted to persuade her that she needed a new pipe. When he fell silent she produced from her bosom a wooden object, notched, smoke-blackened, evil, stuffed it with tobacco, applied a match, puffed miasma into the peddler's face. She had smoked this pipe, she declared, for 65 years...
...Jezebel Pettyfer. At this flowing tide of his affairs he lost his position because of an unfortunate argument with his mistress over the disposition of the cadaver of her lamented dog Aristotle. That same night he proposed to Jezebel, offering her Jehu Sennacherib Dyle in holy matrimony. Jezebel, though coy, finally decided: "I no mind livin' wid yo' here in dis house. But de marryin', it can come later on." Dyle reluctantly agreed looking forward to the day when she would make him "a legitimate...
Married. Miss Jeanne Eagles, 27, famed actress ("Sadie Thompson" in Rain to Edward Harris ("Ted") Coy, 37, perhaps the most successful backfield football player who ever represented Yale; in Stamford, Conn. In 1909 as Captain of his team he was credited with defeating Harvard and Princeton almost singlehanded. *Last January he was divorced in Paris by Sophie D'Antignac Meldrim Coy, daughter of a onetime President of the American Bar Association...
...classmate, Meade Minnigerode, wrote a novel around this, (The Big Year) made Coy (under another name) the hero. Said Coy in the novel to his quarterback: "Never mind the signals! Give me the ball!" Critics consider Minnigerode to be no student of football...