coonskin

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Last week, after Estes Kefauver knocked him down in New Hampshire, Harry Truman abruptly pulled out of the California race, where he would have faced Coonskin Estes again.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the case of Coonskin, a slovenly ineptitude of design and execution, not a desire to affront, should be the subject of all the debate.

From Time Magazine Archive

And woe to the man whose head appeared out of hours; for snipers were always on the watch, especially that prince of snipers, Lieutenant H. C. Foster, renowned as "Coonskin" from the cap he wore.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry