Word: skunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throwback. In Brownsville, Tex., Air Express complained that the Snake King Bird & Animal Farm had shipped a descented skunk which gave birth, en route, to a normally scented baby...
Finally at two o'clock on the dot a car pulled up to unload five "fools," one rooster, one hen, one pig, one heifer, one dog, one goat, and one skunk. The crowd surged up Plympton Street, through the main gate, up the steps of Widener, in the front door, and through the reading room, band, animals, and enlookers which by this time included most of the Cambridge Latin student body...
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...