Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hendrik Shipstead, called by his enemies " the duck hunting dentist," Senatorial sidekick and Farmer-Labor brother of "Magnavox" Johnson, left the wheat fields of Minnesota and went to Washington. In attendance on him as aide-de-camp, wearing military uniform, was Adjutant General Rhinow of Minnesota, smoothing the "hard road of travel for the son of the soil...
Lake Michigan-in Chicago it excites wonder. (P. 26.) The peregrination of a duck hunting dentist...
...story appears in the dramatic section of the Sunday paper that Melinda Mulch, star of the Stupidities of 1923, keeps a canvasback duck in her dressing-room. One day the duck snaps at the leading man; another, it escapes and is discovered in the bass viol; finally it lays an egg and half the company pay bets to the other half. These diverting incidents the public reads intently. The interest thus aroused lures them by tens and dozens to part with $4.40 to see this bizarre Melinda Mulch-the leading lady with a leaning toward canvasback ducks. As a matter...
...alternating current of Yale's baseball fortunes for 1923 became unexpectedly direct in the closing fortnight. The New Haven team won the championship of the major Eastern intercollegiate triangle mainly by virtue of the curious sidearm delivery of Pitcher " Duck" Pond. Pond, who is a Sophomore, defeated both Princeton and Harvard twice in eleven days...
...dueling clubs - an almost unprecedented honor. After a wait of a few weeks he was called upon to take part in a duel. It is an inviolable rule that the opponents may cut, parry and lunge,, they may also move in any direction, but they cannot under any circumstance duck, their heads to avoid a blow-scars on the head being a mark of the highest honor. The young American in the heat of the duel forgot this rule and when his opponent made a lunge at him-he ducked and was ignominiously expelled from the club...