Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half-dozen minds, or may have been plucked out of the studio gag library, a sort of omnibus of humor and situations from Aesop to Captain Billy's Whiz Bang. Before any script is written, it is discussed and pantomimed by the eager gagsters, who solemnly simulate Donald Duck squawking his rage when trapped under a theatre curtain, or frozen Pluto, slinking down an Alpine slope like a hunk of ice sliding off a tin roof...
...Roosevelts, servants, secretaries. James Roosevelt rang up. A friend of Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned to apologize frantically for being late because she had left theatre tickets at home. Last week, after Manhattan newspapers publicized the number, harassed Mrs. Roosa ordered the telephone disconnected, went on a trip. For hunting duck over baited fields near Charleston, South Carolina, Publisher Nelson Doubleday and friends were fined $450, their ducks sent to a charitable institution. Hunting with his brother Winthrop near Kingsville, Tex., Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., was taken ill. Said his doctors: "It is a ticklish point...
Having, by a process of adroit political shadow boxing, set himself up as President of the Philippine Commonwealth with virtually the powers of a dictator, sly little Manuel Quezon naturally has great faith in his ability to duck the punches which he is constantly aiming at his own head to convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move...
...sunset sky, altogether contributing much artistic merit to the pictures). Plates for the new edition have been reduced and reproduced by mechanical, sometimes fuzzy lithography. Nevertheless, the pictures' cumulative effect makes the book exciting. The wild turkey, giant among U. S. birds, struts proudly across Page 1; the duck hawk drools blood in a savage excess of appetite; a little mockingbird cries defiance into the gaping mouth of a rattlesnake; midget warblers perch in a currant bush; the white-bellied booby stares; a least bittern chants in a voice "like a mourning dove imitating a pied-billed grebe...
Horseplay was featured between the halves. The Dartmouth hand chose to burlesque the huge drum of the Crimson marchers, and wheeled one on the field which must have had to duck to get into the Stadium at all. This cardboard monster and its antics caused the Harvard audience to smile with superiority as it gave birth to five little drums. But when the original was exhibited a few minutes later in the role target for the band's bow and arrow stunt, even the most patriotic had to admit it didn't sound very virlie for such a big fellow...