Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Duck," "Soapy...
Your issue of Feb. 12 gives credit to a rainy football game of 1923 for the baptism of "Ducky" Pond, whereas . . . The Hill students of that time know that he bore the name "Duck" when he was helping Hotchkiss beat The Hill some three or four years before...
...name a "Bud"' Weiser, a long hot summer to make "Dusty'' Rhodes, the big-league ball player, or a Oriental climate to grow a "Fig" Newton; whereas probably any one knows that those names, like Topsy, "just grew." A boy named Pond probably is called "Duck" in grade school, unless unfortunately he should happen to be a "Lily...
...shall be glad to agree with you, if you wish to make a settlement, that it was a coincidence that of all the players who saw action that day, it should be a "Duck" who proved to be most capable of navigating the waters of Soldiers Field...
Agriculturist-Diplomat Jardine's lame-duck return from Egypt last autumn was timely for Kansas Republicans. He was just the well-known, respected stop-gap they needed for the State Treasury, headless and reeking after the Finney bond scandal (TIME...