Word: coy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...festivities. It was ushered in by "Robert Lampoon," official jester and longtime honorary member of the magazine's staff, with a piccolo. The purpose of the prank was also revealed: to make a picture of "Bob Lampoon" seated on the spot hallowed by Yale's Hickey, Coy, Heffelfinger et al; to publish the picture in the Yale game number of the Lampoon...
...actress. She immediately perceives that, despite his greying hair and prowess at the bar, he is a small boy beset by vultures. Sharing his enthusiasm for roses and stamp-collecting, she wins his confidence, lures him away to her camp in the hills, where, after a great deal of coy urgency on her part, he consents to stay...
Died. Jeanne Eagels, 35, legitimactress, cinemactress, onetime (1925-28) wife of Edward Harris ("Ted'') Coy, famed Yale footballer (1909); in Manhattan; not of alcoholic psychosis as reported by Manhattan's assistant medical examiner, but of an overdose of chloral hydrate. At a private sanitarium, to which she had gone in haste for a neural treatment, she took off her coat, sat down on a bed, fell over dead. On her body policemen found, cared for some $300,000 worth of jewelry. Lying in state at Campbell's famed Funeral Parlors, few came to see her; many...
...Aurelia, young Mrs. Greeley's confidante. Deftly Miss Nelson demotes Aurelia's husband to an out-of-town office, adroitly she arranges dinner for the Greeleys at Mr. Cooper's home. There a fellow guest asks Mrs. Greeley whether she prefers Bach to Stravinsky. Her coy retort, "Isn't he the high-brow cutup, though?" echoes into ghastly silence. That night she admits to her husband that his rapid rise has not been...
Died. Lucien Coy Esty, 30, of New Haven, Conn., co-author (with Justin Spafford) of the first Ask Me Another book; Amherst alumnus, graduate student in English at Yale University; of pneumonia ; in New Haven...