Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struggle, forgets, perhaps, the necessity of an occasional bit of drabness in landscape as well as in life. There are still those who enjoy the mists of a dull November morning in a marsh without "Even your best friend won't tell you" to worry the drab winged duck. Billboards may support nature admirably--it is only fair to realize how admirably they can nurse her failings. Yet for some they will never need to--nature, even in New Jersey or Nebraska, has an occasional good friend...
...months between the election of a Congress and its assembling to about two months. Incidentally it would do away with the short term* in which filibusters are so effective, and by having a new session begin immediately after a new Congress is elected would do away with the "Lame Duck" legislators...
...Norwalk, Conn., one Joseph Beres, restaurant proprietor, went out duck shooting with a buddy. All day they crouched in a blind. Few ducks came their way. Proprietor Beres grew restless, racked his brains for diversion, hit upon a scheme. Taking a 50-cent piece out of his pocket, he said to his friend, "If you can shoot it out of my hand, it's yours." After some wrangling, the details of the wager were satisfactorily arranged. Mr. Beres took his place, holding the 50? aloft between thumb and forefinger. His friend put a shell in his shotgun, drew...
Repertory--"The Wild Duck", with Blanche Yurka...
Repertory--"The Wild Duck", with Blanche Yurka...