Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seems a shame to waste a fine actress such as Blanche Yurka on such a trivial play. Those who saw her in "The Wild Duck" or in "Flamlet" with John Barrymore, know her worth. In the piece at hand she plays the mother, and needless to say does an excellent bit. But it is a far from suitable part. The rest of the cast is passable, the playing of the son Juan by Mervin Williams, and the portrayal of the red-hot Nubi by Suzanne Caubaye being most worthy of mention...
Page 9-ist col. of your issue of Mar. 12-you speak of Ex-Senator Oscar W. Underwood as being a "lame duck...
...Ibsen's few boisterous comedies; 3) Ghosts (1881), in which a son is smitten by Fate in the guise of inherited venereal disease; 4) An Enemy of the People (1882), wherein the honesty of one man makes him the enemy of ordinary folk; 5) The Wild Duck (1884), a play about a sensitive girl who commits suicide when she learns that she is illegitimate; 6) Rosmersholm (1886) in which a husband and wife and "other woman" hound each other until they all commit suicide...
OKLAHOMANS RESENT CALLING ROBERT L OWEN A LAME DUCK HE WOULD HAVE BEEN UNOPPOSED FOR REELECTION BUT CHOSE TO RETIRE SENATOR OWEN IS THE ACKNOWLEDGED AUTHOR OF AMERICAS MOST CONSTRUCTIVE LEGISLATION THE FEDERAL RESERVE ACT YOU ARE RIGHT HE WOULD BE TOWERING AS SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY OR AS PRESIDENT...
...instead of making new Congressmen wait 13 months to be seated and adjourning on March 4 every other year, as now; also, so that the President would take office Jan. 15 instead of March 4. Last week the House hemmed and hawed as usual over this attack on "lame duck" sessions and modified Senator Norris's resolution beyond recognition. Then, as usual, it voted down the whole proposal. "Lame duckery" will continue. Representative La Guardia of New York promptly filed a bill to abolish "lame duckery" without amending the Constitution...