Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...right with the "South Lot."* The President announced last week that he and Mrs. Coolidge are very fond of their wild swarm of bees. However, the President does not eat honey because it once made him sick when he was a little boy. As for the raccoon, which was sent to the President from Nitta Yuma, Miss. (TIME, Dec. 6), it has won its way into the Presidential affection and will not be sent to the zoo. An eternal coonship has been founded...
...Nobile, pilot and builder of the dirigible Norge, was presented to President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President. ¶Does President Coolidge eat raccoon meat? No. A full-grown male raccoon, sent from Nitta Yuma, Miss., with the hope that it would be a pièce de résistance for the Presidential table, is now frisking about in the White House cellar. Soon it will probably be despatched to the Rock Creek...
...this case, there will be no discomfort. Males who have worn raccoon coats and oiled their hair; who have exchanged a million vapidities in fraternity houses; who have envied the head cheerleader, preened their slang, toddled all night, slaved for watch charms; and the girls they haye petted on sorority porches, girls with giddy shingles and cooing "lines"; girls with "dates" and pledge pins, innocent thirsts, crushes on young instructors, favorite love lyrics, proud independence and timid curiosity about Freud-these and their guardians, too, professors of both sexes, young and old, comfortably pedantic or secretly frustrate, testily brainy...
...bell trousers or raccoon coat, not in three-cornered hat or prismatic necktie, but like a well-dressed politician in spats, Mr. Nicholas Longworth received a solemn delegation of men, all of whom he acknowledged as his brothers. They brought him a little wooden thing. Mr. Longworth smirked appreciatively and thrust out a hand interlocking his fingers with theirs in a way that is not to be described in public. Then one of his four brothers gave vent to speech...
...raccoon hunters reported hearing a crash like that of a falling building during the night near Stone Mountain. Searching parties went out. Seven mail planes and three Army planes scoured the landscape. Three, four days passed and Ames was not yet found...