Word: skunk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Lamour and her husband, Army Air Forces Captain William Ross Howard III, entered their cottage at Arrowhead Springs Hotel, heard a rustle in the wastebasket, investigated. Announced Captain Howard: "It's a cat." He overturned the basket, said: "Scat!" The skunk scatted. So did the Howards...
...Rounder Pearson rehashed some old stories about McKellar's choleric temper and his insatiable hunger for patronage. That afternoon the bulb-nosed Senator took advantage of a large audience, proceeded to bellow for over an hour what he chose to title "Personal Statement about a Lying Human Skunk." Excerpts: "Pearson is just an ignorant liar, a pusillanimous liar, a peewee liar, even if he is a paid liar. . . . When a man is a natural-born liar, a liar during his manhood and all the time, a congenital liar, a liar by profession, a liar for a living, a liar...
...Here is the great tradition cheek by jowl with some of the curiosa of U.S. colonial history-pirates and Quakers, a print of a sea serpent ingesting a naked Indian and a meticulous working drawing of the mechanism of a waterwheel, a picture (done with Audubon violence) of a skunk killing a rooster and views of gracious colonial staircases, the tower of St. Botolph's, Boston, England where John Cotton was vicar and the rather grotesque animal drawings from Brickell's The Natural History of North Carolina. The book is divided into ten chapters, the first covering...
...Skunk, Squash. The DAE pudding, however, contains many a juicy plum. It shows English being enriched, from the earliest days, by borrowings from the U.S. From the Indians came possum, persimmon, punk, skunk, squash, succotash; from the Dutch, cruller, sawbuck, scow, slaw, snoop, stoop, waffle; from the Spanish, cafeteria, calaboose, lariat, mustang; from the German, cranberry...
President Douglas, famed as an anti-union employer, bore all this philosophically. Commented one top unionist: "I think he's pretty cool but . . . he'll not be a diehard. I think we'll find him very fair." The pottery skunk on Douglas' desk, at which he used to point when speaking of unions (TIME, Nov. 22), has been chucked into a basket, along with other trinkets, while his office is being remodeled...