Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kingston, North Carolina, small Willard Watson, 13, equipped two aged hens with wing planes and pushed them off the roof of a barn, 20 feet above ground. One hen glided about 50 feet, settled in a duck pond, whence she was rescued. The other tail-spinned, dropped, broke...
...warm week in New York State. At the end of it, Nominee Smith motored down Long Island to Hampton Bays, where stands Canoe Place Inn, oldtime roadhouse patronized in summer by Tammany politicians and Southampton society folk, in winter by hungry & thirsty duck-hunters. Surrounded by friends, family and the ears and eyes of the public press, he plumped into the salt water in a white-striped bathing suit with a gold religious medal hung around his neck. He rolled like a porpoise, spouted like a whale, chortled like a boy. The cooling off had been made doubly welcome...
Approval of the often-beaten Norris amendment to abolish "lame duck" Congresses...
...said: "When the American eagle has gained its ascendancy, as your great country has, its talons are tucked up underneath its body and not stretched out like a duck's feet. It is the symbol of might and dignity and yet the designer has given the grand old bird the feet of a duck...
Patriots boiled, not at politely perspicacious Ornithologist Knight, but at poetically licentious Hermon MacNeil, designer of the eagle which has been stamped on U. S. quarter-dollars since 1916. "Feet of a duck!" patriots muttered. "Designer MacNeil should be shown a flying eagle and made to try again...