Word: skunking
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Said Dr. Magnuson: "I will name the men I suspect because I want to find out whether each man is a skunk or what the circumstances are." A.M.A. trustees, he added, have promised cooperation; they had just signed an editorial in the A.M.A.'s Journal denouncing physicians who take rebates...
...Skunk. Sherm was no stranger to the labor board. Back in 1937, nine of his waiters told the board that he had bounced them for joining a union; 2½ years later, the state court of appeals bounced them back to Billingsley, told him to cough up back pay. Four of last week's six witnesses had been fired, a fifth had quit, the sixth had been suspended...
Head Kitchenman Manuel Avala testified that, after he had joined the union, Billingsley had him shadowed, hissed at him one day: "You are the skunk of the earth." Modest Manuel added: "I can't tell any of the other things he said. Only on the Bowery is such language used...
...picture of the garment district so snarlingly unpleasant that his publishers for a time refused to let them be reprinted, fearing that they helped spread antiSemitism. In a collection of short stories, The Horse That Could Whistle Dixie, he boiled a whole gallery of cheap-flash characters in skunk oil. Weidman's people were not always well drawn, but they were properly quartered...
Scallions and skunk cabbage to whoever reviewed The Macomber Affair...