Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Throttlebottom) lost control of his outboard motorboat, Embobora II, when its tiller inexplicably came loose in his hand. Down upon him bore a dory. There was a smash-bang amidships and the next thing Alexander Throttlebottom knew he was thrashing about beneath his own overturned craft. He tried to duck out on one side only to crack his head on wreckage, see stars. Down he went again, coming up on the other side. Breathless, and his foot bruised, Alexander Throttlebottom was finally hauled into the dory after the most distressing experience since he was mis taken for a waiter...
...York to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Jackson Drane of Florida to be a Federal power Commissioner; Conway P. Coe of Maryland to be Commissioner of Patents; Fred W. Johnson of Wyoming to be Commissioner of the General Land Office. Ewin Lamar Davis, Tennessee "lame duck," brother of Ambassador-at-Large Norman Davis, got a minor job as trade commissioner...
...lame duck was ever better fitted for such a job. Mr. Moses knows news. It was to gratify reporter friends anxious for a Monday morning headline that he dubbed his irreconcilable western colleagues "The Sons of the Wild Jackass." For this mot and the animosities behind it, he was not re-elected to, although he retained, his Presidency pro tem of the Senate throughout the 72nd Congress. His friends believe that his sharp tongue was what really lost him his Senate seat...
...Constance Thomas Emery after she had left for the evening with her husband Thomas Emery, Cincinnati chemicals heir. The stranger opened a locked drawer, took a jewel-case containing a $37,700 rope of 85 matched pearls, diamond brooches in the shapes of a terrier, a rose and a duck...
...railroads changed the habits of the country almost a century ago, but it took us more than 20 years to pass the lame-duck amendment, which simply gave public recognition to the fact that men travel nowadays on railroads. Thousands of Americans go to Europe now where one went in Washington's day, but when Americans legislate on international relations they still believe that Washington's said the last word on that subject. The frontier disappeared some time before the nineties of the last century, but our legislators have not discovered that fact, and the law still assumes that...