Word: cluck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joined the nation in a chorus of cluck-clucking amazement when it was discovered that the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, onetime engine greaser, now Secretary of State for the Dominions, had signed above King George and Queen Mary on the bridal register of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...
York Herald Tribune. Out hatched last week the year's final marks of sandy-haired Vassily Iosifovich Stalin, 12-year-old son of the Dictator. Cluck-clucking loudly at his private scoop Correspondent Barnes cabled that Vassily "has brought a report card home to the Kremlin which has failed to wreathe Joseph Stalin's face in smiles...
...Good, Treasury's Mellon. Commerce's Lamont, Labor's Davis. The President sat down, hunched up his left shoulder. Vice President Curtis and Secretary of the Treasury Mills swung right leg over left, Secretary of War Hurley, left leg over right. Camera shutters clucked. The Cabinet rarely looked more darkly dignified. Piped a photographer: "Can't you gentlemen please look a little more cheerful this time?" Laughter at such impertinence rippled through the group. All except Postmaster General Brown smiled. Shutters again cluck-clucked...