Word: woodchuck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When confronted with this explanation of her tribal name, the Medical School's woodchuck cooked an eyebrow and, after a moment of meditation, commented, "Probably apocryphal...
Rossetti, who had once urged Pre-Raphaelites to "abjure bohemianism," was the most bohemian of the group. He collected "kangaroos, a wallaby, a chameleon, some salamanders, wombats, an armadillo, a marmot, a woodchuck, a deer, a jackass, a raccoon. . . ." He bought a Brahmin bull because its eyes reminded him of one of his lady friends. Even his Pre-Raphaelite brothers were gradually estranged by Rossetti's eccentricities. When the novelist George Meredith made an annoying remark, Rossetti simply threw a cup of tea in his face. But some hero-worshipers remained faithful. "Why is he not some great exiled...