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Word: skunks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Call of the Wild. In Nashville, members of Vanderbilt University's Kappa Alpha Order (Southern) eagerly chased what they thought was their deodorized pet skunk, name of General Sherman, learned too late it was another skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 27, 1950 | 3/27/1950 | See Source »

Later that day Actress Bennett's chauffeur drew up to Hedda's home and delivered another remembrance: a live skunk (deodorized). Sniffed Joan, still smarting over a recent crack at her in Hedda's column: "I've had enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meow! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

...thought to get Hedda Hopper into a hissing match with a skunk, she had underestimated her fox. Baring her claws a bit, Hedda told a newsman: "I didn't think the Wangers could afford the ad ... I'm completely surprised but completely amused." To her readers she sweetly announced: "It was a good publicity skunk and beautifully behaved. I christened it Joan." Then she gave the animal to the James Masons, who had been looking for one "as a companion for their nine cats. Seems there is a great affinity between cats and skunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Meow! | 2/27/1950 | See Source »

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