Word: raccoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best way to see all your friends. You have to be sure that they wave at you: It's proof to them that I can catch a man. Only you don't usually try to speak to them--they might find something catty to say about your raccoon coat...
...even the gamest team can be ground down, and as the Blue backfield promenaded all over the field Saturday, many were the grumbles from deep inside the raccoon coats. This was Yale, and early-season wins over provincial seminaries were merely so many statistics cluttering up the record. In other years, this unyielding Sophomorism would have been as much a part of the proceedings as Handsome Dan. But this year it must not be allowed to cloud the fact that a green team, playing together for the first time, rose from the nether corners of the Ivy League doormat, where...
...Yale weekend madness Saturday, soundness that must have seemed more familiar to many of the alumni back in the end zones than it did to war-bred undergraduates on both sides of the field. From raccoon coats to built-in ther-mos jugs, Cambridge was a scene lifted out of the twenties...
Margle--At the Keith Memorial. If you want to reminisce about the heydays of the Twenties, this is the way to do it. Starring Jeanne Crain, it tells the story of the Stutz Bearcat and the raccoon coat--on the nostalgic level it wins, but as entertainment it is just too close to the senior high school play to keep you in the theatre for long...
...through the Charleston and Irving Berlin's "Always," down to the high-school debate over whether the Marines should be withdrawn from Nicaragua-recreate the hoteha and ballyhoo of the years just preceding the depression. Especially typical is the portrayal of the high-school football hero, whose raccoon coat, honor-badge of the period, appears as standard equipment whenever the young buck comes in the screen, be it to hootchi-koo, crank up his roadster, or neck on a hot June night...