Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dugan this time isn't a girl who has become a kept woman to help her brother get educated. She is a virgin stenographer. Many other changes have been made to produce the morality play-which badly drags. Draggingest sequence of all: the serving and eating of a duck dinner...
Last week New York City's Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia emitted an angry Donald Duck squawk. Subject: U. S. draft boards. "The trouble with the administration of the draft in New York City," quacked the Little Flower, "isn't in Washington. It's in the laundry. I think someone is using too much starch in the shirts of the administration...
Four days after Tobruch, Dérna fell. The British and Australians had expected duck soup at Dérna, but they found the toughest meat of the Libyan campaign...
This time it was the 100,000 domestic ducks of the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association, fattening on nearby farms. Awakened by the searchlights feeling the sky for decoy planes, the ducks charged around in their wire pens like Brooklynites in the subway. They developed insomnia, turned up their bills at corn. Colonel Clair W. Baird, commanding Camp Upton, sighed, ordered his artillerymen to turn their lights the other...
Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel...