Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Plaisance, teaching himself how to paint. In probably the first period of French history when a painter could win repute without one sniff at an art school, Artist Tal-Coät has forged ahead slowly, was adjudged by Manhattaniles last week to be very near the real McCoy. The paintings on view were mostly done before his first successful Paris exhibition a year ago: small landscapes and still-lifes, drawn to look like what they are supposed to be, but designed in dark tone patterns as abstract as anything surrealist. Against straight surrealism Artist...
...closed his desk in Chicago's Bowen High School one day last March and made ready to go home, Principal William T. McCoy, whose work had only a few days before been commended by Chicago's Superintendent William H. Johnson, received a curt message from the superintendent ordering him to report next morning at an elementary school with a $700 reduction in salary. Not long after, Superintendent Johnson announced a new eligible list for principals. Of the 155 successful candidates on the examination, 128 had come from Loyola University, where Superintendent Johnson teaches. Of the 15 principals promptly...
...these professional sparks had ignited a conflagration that threatened to consume the educational branch of Chicago's notorious Kelly-Nash city administration. What payless pay days and hunger (TIME, March 7, 1932 et seq.) had failed to do-unite Chicago's warring teachers' organizations-the rankling McCoy and McCahey episodes had accomplished...
Last spring Sportsman O'Hara and Pawtucket's Democratic but anti-Quinn Mayor Thomas P. McCoy moved boldly into Providence to launch the daily Star-Tribune. Last month the Star-Tribune got its first big story when Governor Quinn's State Division of Horse Racing, charging numerous irregularities in the conduct of Narragansett Park's approximately $4,000,000 yearly business, ordered the track to oust Major Stockholder O'Hara as managing director. The Star-Tribune reacted so violently to this news that Publisher O'Hara was arrested for libel on the complaint...
Leggett was inclined to treat the article as absurd. "Strong arms beat that drum," he said, "and they beat it in a business like manner." He inferred that no little drum could possibly pinch hit for his real McCoy...