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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rossetti, who had once urged Pre-Raphaelites to "abjure bohemianism," was the most bohemian of the group. He collected "kangaroos, a wallaby, a chameleon, some salamanders, wombats, an armadillo, a marmot, a woodchuck, a deer, a jackass, a raccoon. . . ." He bought a Brahmin bull because its eyes reminded him of one of his lady friends. Even his Pre-Raphaelite brothers were gradually estranged by Rossetti's eccentricities. When the novelist George Meredith made an annoying remark, Rossetti simply threw a cup of tea in his face. But some hero-worshipers remained faithful. "Why is he not some great exiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rossetti & His Circle | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...until after the game that Penn rooters nearly killed the announcer as they told him that they were really depicting the Liberty Bell with a crack down the middle, and the "mountain range" was actually the bandmaster in a raccoon coat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Penn Band Maneuvers Too Much For Radio Announcer | 10/17/1941 | See Source »

...Self-taught in everything, he makes arrowheads by pressure-chipping, has made tin models of more than 135 different kinds of Wisconsin birds, likes to make jackknives, translates poetry from French, German, Norwegian and Hebrew, writes poetry himself. Besides a workmanlike landscape and a portrait of a worried raccoon, Farmer Sugden sent in six bottle paintings, which he made by patiently poking bits of colored sand into place in old whiskey bottles with the aid of a hatpin. Experts pronounced Sugden's sand paintings equal to the best of their kind produced by the Hopi Indians of the southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rustic Rush | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...course, an old-timer like me kind of missed the good old raccoon coats--they used to be sort of like a haystack--if you got bored with the game you could crawl inside and go to sleep...

Author: By Lavinia Dirndl, | Title: What's His Number? | 11/23/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: John Held, Jr., Famous Cartoonist, to Have Residence and Studio in Adams | 2/6/1940 | See Source »

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