Word: raccoon
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...famed Hearst of England. Because no hired coach is permitted at Kent, the coaching is all done by Kent's busy young teachers. White Cassock used to coach football, and until recently, hockey. (He is still a member of the Hockey Advisory Committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association.) Raccoon-coated, he had to shuffle about on the ice; he has never learned to skate...
...fall, however, when stocks crashed the fur market had its most violent decline in history, average drops ranging from 30% to 50%. The only skins unaffected were such blue-chip staples as the very fine white, silver, and cross fox, Russian sable, fisher. The cheap but U. S. favored raccoon temporarily maintained prices because of seasonal demand. Eitingon Schild's inventories had to be written down, and it did not seem likely that dividends on the 6½% convertible preferred could be maintained. Since Goldman, Sachs underwrote this issue, and since Eitingon Schild's trouble was just that...
...avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However, to one conversant with undergraduate life such a mythical place would probably contain many of the subtleties that make a college training valuable: the whimsical breaking of windows, theatres, conversation, and other things of which, it is rumored, even the studious French...
...Coolidge dog; Paul Pry, half-brother of President Harding's famed Laddie Boy; Rob Roy, Wisconsin sheepherding collie who disliked the White House elevator, who stole dainties from the Red Room tea table and was ever to be seen at the President's side. One Thanksgiving Rebecca, raccoon, was sent to the White House to be eaten, but the First Lady could not bear to kill her, built a pen, found a mate (Reuben) who disliked Rebecca and eventually escaped. When President Coolidge summered at Black Hills he was presented with a white collie puppy. Diana of Wildwood...
...Porto Rico. President Hoover, said reports, had asked Porto Ricans how they would like Col. Roosevelt. . . . Last fortnight a cable from Hong Kong to Manhattan said: GREAT LUCK SHOT GIANT PANDA JOINTLY STOP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A panda, also called wah, is a large dimwitted Asiatic raccoon. The "jointly" in the Roosevelt cablegram referred to the fact that the sender is accompanied by his able brother, Kermit Roosevelt...