Word: mccoys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parodies the first thing to consider is make-up. This issue, like its predecessors, attains perfection in this respect. The cover, except for the Pegasus that has replaced the Phoenix, looks like the real McCoy. There is a brief resume of the contents and a startling picture of the latest "Wunderkind", to whom the feature article is devoted...
...Brand new was the most squirm-making act of all, a Hopi Indian snake dance. While portly Col. Tim McCoy explains that the idea is to placate the snakes because in them rest spirits who can return to the rain gods and intercede for a good corn crop, eight painted, breech-clouted Hopis trail around in a circle holding one or two snakes apiece, while a man in the centre waves a bunch of feathers to divert the serpents' attention. As a public precaution, the snakes' fangs have been removed or are kept folded back by little buckskin...
...weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase...
...five miles away, seemed to be approaching on two quarters, armed to the teeth. The Pawtucket Star, a weekly established to bait the Journal, was to become a daily tabloid, change its title to Rhode Island Star. Back of the Star was Pawtucket's Democratic Mayor Thomas P. McCoy. Back of him was Walter E. O'Hara, managing director of Pawtucket's Narragansett race track. Announcing the change, the Star defied the Journal-Bulletin owners as "money barons and sweatshop operators." And, as if this disturbance in the Journal's back yard were not enough...
...when Secretary Roper's "lethargy" was scored by the National Committee on Safety at Sea, someone began releasing confidential data about the situation. Over Director Weaver's protests, Secretary Roper fired the Bureau's second and third men-Chief Investigator Frederick L. Adams and Commander H. McCoy Jones...