Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masseur named Stoebs was hastily summoned from a fashionable West End Turkish bath. He worked over King Carol and produced some results but it was considered necessary to continue the massage in the royal limousine as it sped to Westminster Hall. In ensuing confusion Masseur Stoebs, in his white duck trousers and civilian coat from beneath which peeped a white masseur's sweater, fell into step after groggy and bloodshot-eyed Carol II behind the coffin of George V. Mr. Stoebs wore the only fedora hat in the procession and around his neck on a gold chain mysteriously dangled...
Along with this delightful if somewhat disconcerting masterpiece, the Fine Arts is showing Fox-Movietone News; the adventures of Mickey Mouse; Donald Duck, and that horselike person as fire-fighters; and a picture of the Tournament of Roses classic with all its trimmings...
...hides under rugs and between the slats of Venetian blinds. A faint glimmer of self-recognition flickers when a horse he is riding in the effort to find out whether or not he is a renowned polo player throws him into a pond, where he encounters the famed Penner duck. During the commencement exercises at the school which, as anticipated, take the form of routine production numbers, a detective looking for a check forger is able to terminate the amnesia victim's feeble efforts to uncover his own identity...
...minor one has been Author Louis Golding's caracoling cleverness, which has frightened away more than a few cautious readers. His latest tale is frightening for a different and better reason: it intends to be. A psychological horror story, The Pursuer gives hunters of goose flesh and duck bumps some satisfactorily thrilling moments...
Moving pictures of every game on the schedule showed that the team made "a steady improvement" throughout the year, according to Head Coach Dick Harlow, just back from a six-week duck-shooting vacation in Maryland. The work of Bill Burton and Freddy Moseley in the Yale game was termed as "especially satisfactory...