Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...content without her, the President brought Rebecca, famed raccoon, from the back yard (South grounds) of the White House to the back yard of No. 15 Dupont Circle. Rebecca rode with the President in his limousine...
...Christmas Day, President Coolidge was astir before 7 a.m. Going out on the rear grounds of the White House, he greeted his pet raccoon, who wore his gift, a gleaming collar bearing the legend: "Rebecca Raccoon of the White House." Returning indoors, the President gazed reflectively at the three Christmas trees in the Blue Room, decorated by Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John. This was the first time that there have been Christmas trees in the White House since the death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Later the Presidential family gathered upstairs with Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston...
...Raccoon...
Near Peebles, Ohio, one Perry Stansberry, weary after a raccoon hunt, slumped down beside his fireplace, filled his corncob pipe with loose tobacco from his pocket, lit, puffed, ruminated, fell back bruised and stunned by the explosion in his pipe-bowl of a .22-calibre rifle cartridge...
Meanwhile, in cooler cities, football followers hung up their raccoon coats and spent Saturday afternoon picking All-Americans. It was a footless search, for the "official" All-American is not so quickly chosen nor so authentically "official" as in the days of Walter Camp. There are 300 colleges playing football, and every campus chants for its heroes. The best that can be done is to compare the All-American teams that happen into print...