Word: raccoons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard, in young Lodge's day, raccoon coats were the proper uniform, and he was embarrassed at wearing a mink-lined coat. He proposed to his grandfather that the mink-lined coat be sold so that he could buy two raccoon coats for himself and his brother John (now governor of Connecticut). Cabot Lodge rowed on class crews, belonged to literary clubs and the Cercle Français. He worked hard, and got his degree in three years. "I wanted to get going," he explains. "I wanted to be a newspaperman...
...quiet weekend. For the first time since school began late in September, football players were quietly studying in their rooms. The colorful plaid dresses, the raccoon coats and the leather-bound flasks gathered dust in closets...
...Wild West. In Detroit, while washing windows in a skyscraper, Moreel Bellfleur came upon a raccoon on a sixth-floor ledge...
...contrast, the F. Scott Fitzgerald set seem intent on perpetuating the "twenties" and their attempts to revive the raccoon coat, hip-flask, Stutz Beareat era, although interesting as social history, seem to be destined for eventual frustration due to moths and the lack of spare parts...
When his father cut off his allowance, he sold apples on Wall Street, peddled New Jersey real estate, rented out his raccoon coat through the 1929 football season ($12 a weekend), worked as a Grace Line assistant purser...