Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those things. He has a marvelous sense of humor and has his tongue in his cheek at many things that happen in Washington. He is a good storyteller. I ought to know, for I've been listening to his stories since I was knee-high to a duck. And he has wit. His opponents have learned that and his friends have enjoyed...
...eyes. Again he charged, again the haggard challenger flicked ' him, right, left. For 13 rounds, the sturdy champion took a dreadful drubbing. Then, with that obstinate, fantastic courage that sometimes animates beaten men, he began to lash out furiously, to force his victorious but weary opponent to duck, cover up, retreat. No use; his arms were slack with fatigue. At the end of the 15th round, the referee lifted the hand of the challenger, Charley ("Phil") Rosenberg, thus giving him the title of the champion, Eddie ("Cannoonball") Martin (real name Edward Martina...
...WILD DUCK - Ibsen made to look alive by sheer force of acting...
...brown melts away under the lonely suns of Africa. SILENCE-The good old crook-and-virtue melodrama played to excellent emotional returns by H. B. Warner. OLD ENGLISH-An unsatisfactory "old British gentleman" play by Galsworthy made into keen entertainment by George Arliss' performance. THE WILD DUCK-Reviewed in this issue
...Isaac Margolis Barnett, New York City; Aaron Jacob Bronstein, Brookline; Arthur Barton Brown, Roxbury; Ettore Francis Carniglia, Windsor Locks, Conn.; Dana Bennett Durand, Washington, D. C.; Mason Hammond, Nahant; Kyung-Duck Har, Chunju, Korea; Moses Samuel Huberman, Portland, Me.; Raymond Lincoln Kilgour, Lexington; Edward George Lowry Jr., Washington, D. C.; Morris Marden, Winthrop; Howard Parker Sharp; Pittsburgh, Pa.; Bernard Sowman, Brooklyn, N. Y.; Donald Devenish Walsh, Dorchester...