Word: raccoon
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...served on the staff of the old Life when it was in its heyday. His widely syndicated "Marge" satirized the hip-flask, raccoon-coat days of the late twenties. "Marge" died with the repeal of prohibition and the market crash, and Held obtained a position with the New Yorker, for which he did a series of wood cuts reflecting "on the good old days" and "old American subjects...
Last April Su-Lin died. The body was given to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History for dissection. By last week Anatomist D. Dwight Davis had nearly made up his mind that the panda, the bear and the raccoon shared a common ancestor. He had completely made up his mind about something else: Su-Lin was a male...
Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr., son of a onetime (1910) Harvard football captain, started the fad sweeping U. S. campuses, as raccoon coats did some 10 years ago, as the Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...
...runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with C. I. 0. that jurisdictional rows should be settled after reunion, said he might "go along" with John Lewis' Congress. For this there was some reason. Long...
...approval of all admirers of the principal actors. Despite a tendency for the presentation to lose integration in the complexities of its plot, especially at the end, the central pair carry it all off in their urbane manner, as nonchalantly as the penniless artist who lives in a raccoon coat and a trailer should...