Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looks as if the Mitchellmen's .273 batting average, compared with Pennsylvania's .220, will give them the jump at the plate, while the Quakers' crack fielding is going to make scratch hits and bases on errors as scarce as the well known hen's teeth on a duck farm...
...observed, Nemecsek has to hide in the conservatory pool. Next day he wakes up with a bad cold, disobeys orders to stay at home, goes on an expedition of his own to retrieve the Paul Street flag. His foray is brave but unsuccessful: the Red Shirts catch and duck...
...asunder by a Park Avenue hussy (Adrienne Ames). As he croons, Vallee regards the onetime cabaret girl whom Mrs. Vallee recently named as corespondent in a suit for divorce with saucer eyes, but otherwise comports himself with poise and wooden dignity. Pelican-nosed Jimmy Durante fondles a wooden duck, raspingly sings ''My Dog Loves Your...
...make it because his new Federal job will give him a prime chance to serve a cause to which he is passionately devoted -wild-life conservation. Hunting & fishing trips throughout the nation long ago convinced him that the U. S. was recklessly wasting its wildlife resources. Barren lands, starving ducks, hoggish gunners began to appear in his cartoons. He joined Iowa's Fish & Game Commission, became president of its Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop...
Author Dickens took to fame like a duck to water, working harder than ever. One popular success followed another from his ready pen-Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop. No plodding cultivator of a thankless Muse, Dickens enjoyed not only the fruits of his work but the work itself. He described himself at work on Martin Chuz-zlewit: "In a bay-window in a one-pair sits, from nine o'clock to one. a gentleman with rather long hair and no neckcloth, who writes and grins, as if he thought he was very funny indeed...