Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Nicholas K. Trynin '52, stood resplendent in a raccoon coat at one end of Wellesley College Lake, C. France McCoy '52 stationed himself at the other shore. The four Wellesley lasses, viewing the proceedings from an indeterminate mid-point, decided the two men looked like...
Those were the days of the red handkerchiefs. When the students signed for their tickets before the big game, some in the choice sections would get tickets marked RED HANDKERCHIEF. Just before game time the boys would don their raccoon coats and rush over to Brine's, Leavitt and Pierce, or the Coop to pick up their Crimson cloths...
...roaring Twenties, Princeton Charlies were quite famous for their Stuz Bearcats as well as their Raccoon Coats and hip flasks. The combination of bathtub gin and a Vassar girl was frequently rather deadly, however, and many Princetonians ended their weekends in the obituary columns...
...Among the Meredith publications: Successful Farming (circ. 1,200,000), beamed at prosperous Midwest farm families, and the Better Homes and Gardens Cook Book, which has sold 3,000,000 copies (87,000 so far this year). Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again. It needed more space to house its peak staff (1,446) and five new color presses (cost...
...slump is not only in high-priced furs. In the Louisiana bayou country, where trappers sold $11 million worth of muskrat, raccoon, opossum and other cheap furs last year, there were few buyers as the 1948 trapping season opened. Fur dealers were still loaded up with last year's skins...