Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Blanche Yurka is tall, almost burly. As the placid wife of improvidential Hjalmar Ekdal in The Wild Duck she filled an ample role to which her body, her accomplishments and her God better suit her than the tense thing to which she has tried to suit herself in Hedda Gabler. She gives a certain effect of languor, but it is the languor, not of a bitter neurotic, but of a temporarily awakened marble slowly reverting to stone...
...normal. But whatever dislocation there may be, is not, as has been assumed by the protagonists in the discussions, the kind that permanently warps the subject. One cannot help arriving at the conclusion that a good deal of powder has been wasted on what is truly a decoy duck...
...Souls' College allows itself one big celebration every hundred years. The night All Souls' was consecrated, Chichele, it is said, went up on the roof of the college to give thanks to God for the completion of his work. And there he came upon a mallard duck, which was resting there. He gave thanks for the lucky omen, for the mallard was the badge of his family, and told the newly appointed Fellows that once every hundred years, they should all go up on the roof of the college and look for a mallard, and if they found one they...
...permission if they wish to sleep later on any given morning than 8 o'clock, the family rising hour; 4) Even the four privileged reporters are not permitted to telephone from the palace, nor may they leave by the main door. However great the news emergency, they must duck out through a subterranean passageway, then sprint for private houses in the neighborhood, where they have arranged to use the telephone, day or night...
...team along the white miles. His little Siberian dogs plunged hopelessly in their harness, jerking against leather, grooving the deep drifts with their bellies. Remembering again the drifting ice across Norton Bay, Leonard Seppalla cracked his whip and called the curious signal to go ahead which made his leader duck and scuttle, guessing the trail with his feet...