Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reed there are no intercollegiate athletics, no fraternities, and student self-government is important. The intellectual freedom Reed attempts readily persuades some august citizens of Portland that Reed is a bed of radicalism. President Keezer is known to have worn bright red duck pants on the campus, but to the calmer observer the president seems merely to be airing out academic sanctity. He prods bookworms into skiing trips, but makes no effort to attract or hold playboys to Reed...
...piggy-back rides and to tell them many stories of giants and flowers and fairies. Whence rose the serious discussion: "Are fairies real?" 'Tis a pity little ones doubt so young. Of course fairies are real. Real as Peter Rabbit and Easter bunnies; real as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; real as Robinson Crusoe and unfound treasures; real as princesses and bold Knights; real as songs never sung and poems never written; real as Cinderella and kind thoughts; real as the dreams of children--and who will doubt that these are real...
...Duck!" yelled Judge Silbert. The jury, to a man, dived out of its box. All the spectators tried to get out the doors at once...
...which would have been nonexistent without Chaplin, The Milky Way might have been a shade funnier if Producer Lloyd had cast someone other than himself in the leading role. Burleigh Sullivan (Lloyd), a craven milkwagon driver who, in order to preserve his feeble physique, has perfected the art of ducking punches, tries to rescue his sister (Helen Mack) from two drunks. When he ducks a punch from one of the drunks, it knocks out the other, who turns out to be Middleweight Champion "Speed"' MacFarland. Acclaimed for the knockout, Burleigh is urged by MacFarland's manager (Adolphe Menjou...
...junk," explained Captain Kilkenny last week, "is duck-shaped rather than fish-shaped, so it can plunge into the trough of a wave and rise again almost vertically without shipping water...