Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their feelings, they occasionally break into such plain-&-fancy cussing as "Thou concave-eyed and mentally bed-ridden offspring of a bald-seated she-dog!" Their chief delight, however, is in apt aphorisms: ''Two resolute men acting in concord may transform an Empire, but an ordinarily resourceful duck can escape from a dissentient rabble"; "To regard all men as corrupt is wise, but to attempt to discriminate among their various degrees of iniquity is both foolish and discourteous...
...town. Pete Traxler was sitting in the driver's seat with two revolvers and Tindol was in back with two revolvers and a 30-30 Winchester. Just then Frank Dorris the town marshal drove by and Nell said, "There's the Law. You'd better duck." Pete, who acted drunk, roared with laughter and Mars Turner had a bad moment. But Marshal Dorris looked the other way and drove straight to Chickasha to get help. To Mars Turner's surprise, they paid him. He said, "Thank you. Come again...
...last year's discovery by the Los Angeles Ministerial Association that its "Spiritual Psychic Science Church" was selling ordination certificates for cash, was willing to accept $10 even from "Rev. Drake Goo-Goo," Funnyman Joe Penner's duck (TIME, April 20, 1936): Revocation last week of the "Church's" charter, after court hearings...
...Russians, she decided, for all their stolid appearance, "were far more acute than Englishmen." Except for "the smell peculiar to all things Russian-rotten leather or duck," she found them more attractive than they were painted. Spanish bullfights (where she admired the bulls more than the matadors) were much more interesting than European picture galleries. A Rubens subject was "nauseating because she looked as if she would melt into thick fat if she were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach...
...become a permanent agency to take over all of the Government public works construction. To men who know construction, that possibility is nauseating. To the taxpayers of the country, it should be a warning of eventual national financial collapse. Only to the politicians is such a statement ''duck soup." If the men on WPA had been turned loose making automobiles, mining coal, or publishing news periodicals, the storm of protest would have been terrific, and the effort ended. Only in construction, the most disintegrated of all industries, could such an invasion of private industry be continued...