Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Compared to the work before the first Congress, the work of later Congresses, even under the New Deal, was duck soup. The first Congress had to make its rules, set up the Departments of State, Treasury and War, fill the Treasury (by tariffs which remained models of log-rolling for a century), set up the Federal judiciary (its designer, Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut, became fourth Chief Justice), assume the national and State ,debts (by trading to Virginia the capital site on the Potomac). All this it did, and more...
...black & blue fins) are now extinct in the Great Lakes, and the famed Lake Superior whitefish are fast disappearing; municipalities often have to be forced to stop pollution of streams; the increasing number of hunters (448,000 in 1935, 1,000,000 in 1938) may require tighter limitations on duck hunting...
...expressive quality of the animals and other figures. Every one of the artists cooperating with Disney is a master draughtsman in his own right. The drawing is uniformly fine as is shown in the sheet of animal figures and in the background work for "Snow White," or in Donald Duck trying to open a package. Characterization has also reached just as high a place as may be seen in the model sketches of the Seven Dwarfs and the duck drawings from the "Ugly Duckling...
After another quick change, this time to their store clothes, Conductor Koussevitzky and his men gave Manhattanites their first taste of Serge Prokofieff's children's suite, Peter and the Wolf, made them whoop and giggle to hear Peter's duck (the oboe) quack mournfully inside the hungry wolf's stomach (three French horns). With the evening topped off with waltzes by Johann Strauss, Sibelius and Ravel, concertgoers felt that Henry Lee Higginson's band had kicked up its heels about as much as any self-respecting 58-year-old symphony had a right...
Feild first told of the working force in the studio, the artists, musicians, composers and draftsmen who effect the creation of such characters as Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Ferdinand the Bull, Snow White, and others. "More than 800 workers are in the studio," Feild explained; "all are working in productive...