Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yards to a touchdown; 2) tossed a pass to Funk for another; 3) ran 81 yards for a third through the entire Oregon team. The U. C. L. A. rooting section, which had spent the half-time making card-formation pictures of a bear eating a duck, went home feeling sure that nothing in the rest of their schedule will keep the team out of the Rose Bowl if they can beat California this week. U. C. L. A. 33, Oregon...
...laconic character. Unable to reach Nome before dark, the Lindberghs landed in a far lagoon on Seward Peninsula, anchored the plane, and slept. In the middle of the night they were awakened by guttural voices, discovered two boatloads of Eskimos beside the plane. "Hello," said the Eskimos, "we-hunt-duck." Taken aback, not knowing what manner of men his visitors were, Charles Lindbergh replied, "That's nice." Conversation lagged. To keep it going, he explained that he and his wife were just stopping for the night. The Eskimos did not understand. Still trying to make conversation, he asked...
...This duck arithmetic, arbitrary though it may be. strongly affects not only protective bodies like the National Association of Audubon Societies but also sportsmen who hope that their sons and grandsons may not grow up too late to enjoy the ancient and honorable sport of wildfowling. If each pair of this year's ducks were allowed to live through this winter and go north again next spring, the duck population might increase by next season to 80 million ducks, enough to assure the birds of a fresh start...
Weighing against all this arithmetic is the fact that U. S. wildfowling as now organized constitutes an industry which supports tens of thousands of human families. Also weighing is the fear that, were the duck season ever closed down entirely, even for one year, conservationist zeal would prevent its ever being pried open again...
...Lakeside Orphanage, so endear themselves to the richest member (John Boles) of the board of trustees that he decides to relieve the tedium of a summer at Southampton with his good-humored elderly aunt by adopting them. Little Elizabeth's diversions of frolicking about with her pony and duck, teasing the English butler, dancing and singing in amateur theatricals are thereafter interrupted only once. This is when her older sister and her guardian, being too inhibited to confess their love for each other of their own accord, make it necessary for Elizabeth to break the ice between them...