Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure, for that matter, whether Lincoln or Drinkwater wrote it. But afterwards many Japs slip backstage and tell the actors how much they admire the speech. Most Allied civilians who attend the show (the theater is out of bounds for the military) find it so long-winded that they duck out before the end. The only criticism they have voiced is that Lincoln's trousers are much too nattily creased. Accordingly, before one recent performance, while top-hatted "Secretary Seward" squatted crosslegged, eating rice with chopsticks, "President Lincoln" went busily to work rumpling his trousers. Then President Lincoln...
...Women. In Camden, N.J., Mrs. Lillian Kerney went to court, got her divorce. Grounds: her husband made her duck under the dashboard when he drove past a girl friend...
Since it began, four months ago, Request Performance (CBS, Sun., 9-9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) has attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...
Fond of most sports, he plays golf in the gos, plays tennis all the year round (in winter in the $500,000 Tennis House which his father & friends had built near by). When he can get away, he takes his wife skiing, or goes duck-hunting...
...also displayed a series of telegrams which she had received from Pappy as she traveled westward to Reno. They ended with the phrases, "All my love," "Love you," "Love you so darn much," "Love you, darling" and "Love you, apple duck...