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Meanwhile, the Klan, being unwilling to attack a woman, is driving chiefly against her husband. The Klan papers call him "buzzard", "yaller dog", "old skunk", "he-viper...
This comedy seems deliberately intent on creating a malomorous reputation. It deals with the overpowering stench engendered by a rare and delicious fruit from China, which, when eaten (by two members of an English household)-permanently imbues them with the aura of a skunk. To inspire further jocularity, the men are compelled to wear diving suits to suppress the effluvia, while devoted friends visit them in gas masks. Eventually one of the men shoots himself, hounded to his grave by a smell...
...associates of Senator Walsh are very improper investigators of any moral question. Jim Reed is a political skunk, and if he were dusted with asafetida it would perfume...
...political skunk...
...recognize the court's authority or existence. Judges do not know the coal mining business. We refuse to answer questions." He was jailed for contempt of court. Given permission by the sheriff to speak from the balcony of jail, he called Governor Allen of Kansas "a skunk of a Governor...