Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President squiggled his signature to an order presented by Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling, head of the Biological Survey. The order: an amendment to Federal hunting regulations forbidding duck hunting with repeating shotguns capable of carrying more than three shells. Object: a better break for ducks...
...Woolworth Donahue Cheetah. Before the show opened sports pages contained pictures of the cheetah and its trainer, Publisher Eltinge F. Warner of Field & Stream. When the show began, patrons viewed a cinema which showed the cheetah, by this time almost as legendary as a loup-garou, retrieving duck and pheasant...
...eight and a half millions being spent now for duck mating areas and refuges was only secured because we were able to show that by spending this money to aid distressed agriculture and the unemployed we could at the same time do something for the ducks. Our endowment of wild life resources is the bowlegged girl of the village. Every one sympathizes with her but never asks her to the picnic...
...ducks. . . . The amazing thing to me is that with a $500,000,000 industry to maintain no one should have started long ago to put the duck business on a factual basis. No one knows whether we kill 12,000,000 and hatch 11,000,000 a year or whether we kill 24,000,000 and hatch 10,000,000. . . . This year the Biological Survey has set its hand to that job as intensively as our constricted budget would allow...
...tied hand and foot to that duck now. I can't get away from it. I've tried to break my contract, and I've even threatened to take it to the Supreme Court, but it doesn't do any good. I have to keep on advertising for that duck company, or they'll sue we. Every time one duck falls off the train, they send me another one. And the ducks don't have any sense of propriety. They don't send me any males, only females, and the last one I had laid a batch of eggs...