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...opening of the fall drinking season, to Maundy Thursday . . . . yes and ended in the spring disinheritance . . . . weekend Indeed, why the Hoosick Whisick party itself wasn't over for eight days . . . . not until somebody found the last mural moosehead floating under Harvard Bridge and the plumbers had removed a stuffed badger from the innards of my open plumbing fixture . . . . a pretty notion of a weekend, just getting the, old grad back and doing a job on him . . . . what about my reputation? . . . . last year you know damn well you pushed me through the cold buffet in the Copley dining room...
...London last week, already quarreling among themselves. The more exalted contingent of maharajas and rajas held a secret session in St. James's Palace presided over by H. H. the Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, famed some years ago as "Mr. A" when a smart Englishwoman worked the badger game on him in Paris (TIME...
...Badger Game. The method of blackmailing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure...
Citizens of Wisconsin first became known as Badgers when the lead mining operations were instituted in the Minreal Point vicinity at the close of the Winnebago War, 1827. Conditions of living were crude. Illinois mining teams flitted with the seasons and were called "Suckers", colloquial name for the small migratory fish of the streams. Swiss and Cornish immigrant miners, too busy to build houses, moved into abandoned shafts on the hillsides and thus were known as Badgers. Hence Wisconsin attained the name of Badger State...
James Maxwell Murphy is correct. To the State of Wisconsin, apologies. But the adjacent connotation "badger v. t." which Webster does say derives from Wisconsin is as follows: "To beat down; cheat; barter; bargain...