Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Stanfield is the third Administration Senator to go by the board, to become a lame duck: first McKinley of Illinois (TIME, April 26), then Pepper of Pennsylvania, then Stanfield...
...mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch for a blowing bowhead; that flocks of duck, whose northward flight beyond Barrow is strong evidence of land in the Arctic "blind-spot," fly so thickly and so low that the natives can lasso them with weighted strings; that the last suicidal migration of the Alas kan lemmings* was in 1888; that, protected against unmitigated sunshine glaring...
Repertory--"The Wild Duck...
April 13--"The Wild Duck" at the Repertory. Second return engagement of Ibsen's piece. Ruth Taylor takes Blanche Yurka's place...
Years ago, before the mossless rolling stone was rampant on the shield of this particular vagabond the rolling Easter egg held sway. Painted in gaudy and inedible colors, the largest duck eggs were brought every Easter Monday by an Easter rabbit, and reckless little boys tried unsuccessfully to eat them. My pursuit of golden eggs in those days was as ardent as it is today...