Word: ducking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Betty Bowen Jumel Burr-famous or infamous as you choose-started life in the gutters of Providence when that town was noted mainly for its smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with...
Smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses...
...William Beebe (TIME, April 7), who tracked it down in British Guiana. It is a primitive type, relic of vanished ages, closely allied to the pterodactyl, first known fossil bird. It has a very strong beak, with which it has been known to break rocks. It swims like a duck, its wings are webbed like a bat's. The newly hatched hoatzin has long claws on its thumb and first finger with which it climbs trees until its wings are strong enough to fly. The expedition will also seek the bell bird, which tinkles, but does not sing...
When man's great and good friend, the horse, slips and breaks his leg, he is promptly shot. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals sees to that. When a Senator or a Representative slips and loses an election, he continues as a lame duck law maker for four months longer. To provide for the prompt decapitation of maimed ducks and halt politicians, a proposed amendment to the Constitution was brought before the Senate, The Senate passed the proposal by vote of 63 to 7. Its terms...
...appeared with a bona fide black eye. Reports said I claimed it to be a publicity stunt, admitted to have been caught off guard." Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, (See Page 5): "At the Madison Square Garden Poultry Show in Manhattan, there was keen rivalry among exhibi-tors of Pekin ducks. I divided honors with Mrs. Payne Whitney and Roy E. Pardee, who is known as the Pekin Duck King...