Word: polecat
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...practice has been general, the opposition to laws intended to suppress it has centred in the South. For two generations Southern Representatives and Senators have greeted every lynching bill that came up for debate with a reaction as sharp and unfailing as would be produced by a polecat. Snorted Georgia's Richard Russell last week of the latest and one of the most threatening Federal attempts to prosecute and punish lynchers: "Skunk meat...
...little polecat said...
Regrettably, by the hand of fate assisted by a grimier hand nearer home, the mark of Boston's salty fame has had strange bedfellows in the public press: Benny the Alligator, James the Polecat, The (Sacred) Owl, the (Sacred) Ibis, and other stuffed nonsense. Weary of swinging in the winds of State House oratory, the grand old effigy could have taken its leave, alone and in honor. It deserved better than to disappear with a zoo-full of mildewed bridge-prizes. For the sacred cod, aloof and unsullied, is no kin to these doubtful deities, these gods brought down...
...night I tak' my haxe And go for hund de skunk, Polecat...
...letter he received from one Roger W. Mintone of Boston: "If the enclosed [a press clipping] represents your idea of the ethics of a guest invited to a private dinner?to broadcast tales about his host ?the suspicion that you are a charter member of the Great American Polecat Club seems amply confirmed. . . . Pretty sickening disclosure of the standard of honor of a Senator...