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Word: duckings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scandalous lies that his kinky hair and heavy features were signs of Negro blood, that the 350-acre farm to which he frequently retires with his vivacious, red-headed wife, is only a device to gain agrarian support. He drives an Auburn, golfs in the 90's, goes duck-hunting. Impressed by his vigorous campaign and easy victory, Presidential supporters of Kansas' Alfred M. Landon promptly boomed Nominee Brooks for keynoter at the Republican National Convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: Mangled Machine | 4/27/1936 | See Source »

...equally important Vienna Phoenix Life Insurance Co., known throughout Central Europe as "Phönix-Wien." Founded in 1882, it established branches throughout the empire, grew prosperous. The break-up of the old Austrian empire did not seem to affect it. Phönix-Wien rode like a duck over the wild inflation of 1923. Less than a year ago Phönix-Wien boasted assets of nearly 750,000,000 schillings ($150,000,000), controlled 15 different companies and had absorbed two-thirds of the insurance companies in Austria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Ph | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...church" was not downed by a request for an ordination certificate for "Rev. Drake Googoo," a "Persian clairvoyant with some stage experience." The certificate was procured for $10, and the Ministerial Association made front pages by revealing that ''Rev. Drake Googoo" was Funnyman Joe Penner's duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Ordained Duck | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...Author was born and bred on a Nebraska farm, could handle a team by the time he was 10. He still looks like a country boy. After farmwork, the University of Nebraska was like duck soup for him. He was well into the academic life when the Spanish War started, drew him into a dreary camp in Georgia. His sufferings there under army inefficiency started him thinking about politics, economics, sent him back to teaching with a thirst for modern facts. After posts at Bryn Mawr, Columbia. Nebraska. Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, journalism for the Unpopular Review and The New Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nebraska Nonage | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

Mickey Mouse, the Big Bad Wolf, the Horse-Goof, and Donald Duck have a most sensational polo game with Chico Marx, Charles Chaplin, and Laurel and Hardy. Fox Movietone News appears again with its many neat categories, and at 12:30 every day there is to be heard Tachaikowsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor ("Symphony Pathetique...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 4/16/1936 | See Source »

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