Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Otto Grow: "Ef I kin get uh chanst to duck when me boss ain't lookin', I'll be there. Ya can't tell me they're goin' to play baseball alla time...
...What fur-bearing animal has a duck's bill and lays eggs...
...duck-billed platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus...
...corridors, by the audience). "I climb to my saddle," he sings, "and I ride and I ride." He will say to the maiden: "If thou be as fair as men say, do on thy hood and come along o' me; and sooner than a weasel can suck a duck's egg, thou shalt be Queen of England." Near the lady's home, he loses his way, falls asleep, while Mr. Taylor's wood pieces whisper sylvan enchantments and the chorus, offstage, hums the forest mysteries. It is All-Hallow's Eve, when a maid, by performing runic rites...
...Republican side of the Chamber, he said: You've had political toothache ever since the November elections and now you are applying every remedy to ease your suffering and your pain." Then he looked at Sen. David Reed of Pennsylvania and said, "Mellon's man Friday"; turned to lame duck Senator Harreld with something about a "tall gusher from Oklahoma...