Word: polecat
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...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
...item that has been going the rounds of the papers to the effect that 'a chap who spent $ 1,500 to graduate at Harvard is postmaster in Iowa at $ 24 per year' has been seen by the 'chap' himself, who writes from Polecat's Nemesis, Iowa, to the Magenta." - Alfred Student...
...community having become so refined, the suggestive yet uneuphonious name of the village grated against our finer sensibilities. By a unanimous vote, the name was changed to "Polecat...