Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wild Duck. Ibsen† has become altogether too much a playwright of the printed page in our theatre. His works are rather reverenced than revived. Accordingly, it is immensely satisfying to see The Wild Duck live again in a conspicuously competent production of The Actors' Theatre. It provides an evening of exacting search through the mind and the emotions. This search is rewarded by one of the two or three most satisfying experiences in the season's schedule...
...Wild Duck is a symbol-a bird that, when wounded by the hunter, digs itself in the weeds and dies. The hunter of the play is a young idealist who comes to a middleclass, satisfied household and splinters their illusions. In the hope that he may lead them to a newer, finer life of honesty, he tells the husband that his wife has been another's mistress. The father shuns his child, fearing he may not really be her father. The child kills herself. The point of the play is put in the mouth of the old doctor...
...Appropriation Bill for the Legislative Establishment that is Congress having been passed a week before by the House, came up one evening in the Senate. Only twelve minutes were spent in passing it but, while it was 01 the floor, an amendment sponsored by Senator Ball, lame duck Republican from Delaware, was quietly attached without discussion or a roll call...
...Harding well. They had a good many things in common, although the hard-working Senator from Indiana could never see the point of the Senator from Ohio's going out into a pasture to chase a small white ball from cup to cup. Mr. New was much fonder of duck hunting...
...lawyer interested in a number of enterprises including banking, glass, cotton goods, cotton seed products and the development of waterpower. But, last summer, when he went back to his state, he was defeated for renomination by Cole Blease, onetime Governor (TIME, Sept. 8). So Mr. Dial is a "lame duck," must retire from the Senate in March...