Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continue his rule from Washington. Therefore, to be his successor at Baton Rouge he picked Oscar Kelly Allen, 49, red-faced, grey-haired chairman of the State Highway Commission and lifelong Long man. A country boy who taught school, ran a saw mill, took up politics, Mr. Allen hunts duck, fishes, says little, likes to stay at home. A Long boast: "I can sell anybody anything." During the primary campaign Governor Long took the stump for Mr. Allen, made good his boast by selling his candidate to Louisiana's voters over four ineffectual opponents...
...Adopted (63-10-7) for the sixth time a resolution by Nebraska's Norris to amend the Constitution for the elimination of the short ("lame duck") session of Congress; sent it to the House where Speaker Garner promised it favorable consideration...
...crafty bucolic rogue, whose favorite expletives are "Appercrampus! Allecap-antho!" flatters a gullible duck to its complete undoing...
Labrador (see map) is a vast and draughty triangle nearly three times the size of Newfoundland. It contains many a lake. The eider duck and the hair seal are disappearing, but on the word of Medical Missionary Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, the country is infested with mice "of many varieties." A will-of-the-wisp to Labrador explorers and Labrador investors are the perennial stories of a great-unexploited gold field somewhere up the Hamilton River...
...Both duck-shooters and connoisseurs of etchings would like Sportsman-Artist Roland Clark's Stray Shots (Derrydale Press: $25; de luxe edition, $75), containing 13 original dry-points by the author (with frontispiece signed) and some reminiscences of shooting in the days when there was a spring season, no bag limit...