Word: varmint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most sparking points in the strip. He finds all the oddities of the English language and puns with them until he has formed a new language for his creature creations. From Deacon Mushrat, who speaks in Old English script to pup dog who pontificates on poltergeist, each varmint adds his own grammar...
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
...county courtroom, Lindsey and three helpers exhorted farmers, ranchers and courthouse loafers. "You think it's silly tryin' to call up the varmint that has the reputation through the ages of bein' the slyest. We four have been the direct cause of about 600 bitin' the dust." He explained carefully how two men with miners' cap lights were to stand back-to-back waiting to spot the fox's red eyes. Behind the jury box, some hound-dog men snickered...
...open field. Though one hunting party put the torch to 40 acres of brush, the big cat remained at large. That night, one M. D. Douglass swore he saw the fugitive sneaking back into the zoo; attendants hung chunks of drugged meat on nearby fences, but the varmint went unseen and uncaught...