Search Details

Word: skunk (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Disinterred from its grave by some of our jovial Freshmen the skunk made its appearance late last night in the Georgian Lunch. It disappeared shortly, however, and its whereabouts are unknown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colonel Apted Tops Skunk Hunt by Thrilling Murder in Yard---Corpse Buried by Mass. Hall | 5/17/1934 | See Source »

...Neighbor Cavalieri, threw up a 6-ft. $300 barbed-wire spite fence. In reply Neighbor Cavalieri hoisted a pink wooden pig on a pole to grimace down at Neighbor Kisselman. Neighbor Kisselman ranged along his spite fence two pigs, a toad, a wolf, two snakes, a wild bull, a skunk, a baboon; portraits of Neighbor Cavalieri...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 7, 1934 | 5/7/1934 | See Source »

...biography. Best performance is that of the camera man, who worked part of the time in Arizona cow country, posed his mustang hero against a sun-drenched panorama of hills and prairie. Good shot: Smoky causing a stampede when he returns to the herd after hobnobbing with his first skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 15, 1934 | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...left at the sun setting over cotton fields and scattered palms, bare purple mountains in the distant background. She's doing 58. Cut the gas for the turn into the irrigation plant enclosure. No pump Diesels throbbing, so Doran will have the radio going. Barely miss a skunk near the settling basin, screech to a stop behind Clary's new Ford 8 parked in front of the engineer's quarters. A little late, but "1933 marches on" into the yawping of ''Hooey'' P. Long's latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 6, 1933 | 11/6/1933 | See Source »

...Gilpin, lady-charming magician in a summer vaudeville troupe, is shot on a Cape Cod bluff. Asey Mayo, shrewd Yankee with two murder solutions already to his credit, makes much of a strangled skunk, lets the murderer commit suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders of the Month: Jul. 31, 1933 | 7/31/1933 | See Source »

Previous | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 | Next