Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juniors, '28 men were more worldly. Its members heeded the ads and subscribed to the New York Times ("Sports News Written by College Men") and Vanity Fair ("Published for what is probably the most intelligent group of readers in the world"). The junior might even have bought a raccoon coat for $275, a Dusenberg Roadster for $1750, or one of Langrock's Nassau model sack coats...
...Anybody Seen My Gal is set in what is referred to as the Roaring Twenties, an era when, to judge from this picture, flappers in short skirts and college men in raccoon coats did little else but pour down bathtub gin, read Elinor Glyn's It, dance the Charleston, and indulge in such bon mots as "hot diggity," "the cat's meow" and "skiddoo." The result is a thoroughly lightweight but agreeably lighthearted little taffy pull in Technicolor. Surrounding Multimillionaire Coburn are a number of pleasant young people, including Piper Laurie, Rock Hudson, Gigi Perreau and an enthusiastic...
...some 3,000 undergraduates and their dates walked jubilantly across the Anderson bridge many of them sporting raccoon coasts and flasks full of bootlegged whiskey, the CRIMSON chuckled. "Do you see the Coat that fellow is wearing? No it is not His Own. What does that Matter? It might as well be. It is his Roommate's. There are nine of them. All Told, who room together. His roommate, the one who Bought the fur coat I mean, felt he had to have it to keep Up with Everyone Else. Now, it is All he can do to keep...
Just before January exams came the traditional mid-season sales: Raccoon coats were slashed to as low as $245, two-wheel brake Oakland roadsters ran about $839, and those essential commodities--gloves...
...gave the visitors a 13 to 0 win in the driving rain. Hopelessly cheering till the last play, the man of '27 helped form a soggy 'H' with red and white handker-chiefs, tried lighting a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flash, and snuggled deeper into his raccoon coat. Afterwards he took his date to see the smash hit of the day, John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...