Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When a biological entity like the wild duck is the innocent bystander in the great American game of politics, it's no joke...
Debate continued on the Government's announced intention to send Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden to Geneva to get Sanctions lifted. Snapped Labor's Sir Stafford Cripps: "He goes as the Government's decoy duck!" Against the abandonment of Sanctions His Majesty's Loyal Opposition further battled by presenting a motion to censure His Majesty's Government. Result: victory 384-to-170 for Stanley Baldwin...
Meanwhile Fleet Street editors scoffed at the cock & bull yarn some reporters had telephoned in. They said they had talked to an Irishman who said he had talked to a woman who said her little boy had been rescued from drowning in the duck pond of St. James's Park by a tall man in top hat and impeccable morning clothes who looked exactly like the Chancellor of the Exchequer. This Irish yarn seemed all the more unlikely because several men were said to have been standing nearby when the child fell in, while the top-hatted rescuer...
...tale in all details. Jubilant were the Chancellor's friends, now busy grooming him to succeed Stanley Baldwin before long as Prime Minister, but fearful that frosty Mr. Chamberlain lacks the human appeal necessary to hold the highest office in Great Britain with success. After his spontaneous duck-pond heroism they all felt immensely more hopeful, and London newspapers blazed out with the first human interest story of all time about Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain, Privy Councilor to His Majesty and M. P. for Ladywood...
...Lynn, Mass., newshawks spied War Veteran Michael Collins, his dog, Madame Queen, and his duck, Mac, hiking along the road to Maine. Explaining he wanted treatment at the Togus, Me., soldiers' home, Veteran Collins said he, Madame Queen and Mac had hiked all the way from Phoenix, Ariz, in a year...