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Word: skunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just for the asking, Cedric Malcolm Adams can get almost anything in Minnesota. As the Northwest's favorite radio and press gossip, he has found homes for 50,000 minnows, 76,000 other animal, vegetable and mineral objects including baby alligators, pianos, crutches, white mice, a skunk, an artificial leg and four corsets. Once he asked his fans to help a widow who had lost her $37 income-tax payment. More than 57,000 responded, each mailing a penny to Cedric. Last week, the Pied Piper casually asked his public for a solution to the nylon shortage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Whiz Bang | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Nary a Scent. In Dallas, Ore., Mrs. Sadie Reddekopp reported that the Christmas rush had cleaned out the stock of her odorless skunk farm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 7, 1946 | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Springfield, Mass., a motorist sniffed at his share-the-ride passenger, muttered "I smell skunk," drove nervously on, finally glanced into the back seat, saw there a skunk, frozen but smelling fierce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 26, 1945 | 2/26/1945 | See Source »

...Performers improvise to their hearts' content, while the show itself has been changed 77 times. It has boasted a man who imitates phonograph records, a Chinese comic, a drum-majorette, a gorilla, an elderly lady acrobat; it has auditioned a bow-&-arrow champion, a camel, and a skunk. Of the original cast, only Murray and Marie Wilson have not dropped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: California Gold Mine | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

...Saddle (RKO-Radio) is a western omelet made of the traditional ingredients and served up with a trifle more than the traditional style and fun. A hard young newcomer to town (John Wayne) renders a bruising account of himself in barroom, street and poker brawls, smokes out the skunk who killed his boss and, in the course of preventing a dove-soft eastern girl from being cheated of her inheritance, learns that he himself is the rightful heir to the K.C. Ranch. By this same bold fiat of plotting, which slices the Gordian knot paper-thin, it is also shown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

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