Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novelty class, Oscar Duryea & wife of New York won with their Conversation, quickly nicknamed Speakeasy Promenade by onlookers. Male and female take an open position and dart and duck at one another in a burlesque of bussing...
...endowment gives the theatre but $9,000 a year income. Last year's deficit was $42,000 which came out of the Art Institute's pocket. Director Stevens' position: he wanted to produce serious drama and did (Dear Brutus, The Golem, The Wild Duck, When We Dead Awaken, The Game of Love & Death, Don Juan, The Forest). The Institute's position: serious drama, artistically done, was excellent if the theatre could earn its keep...
...faltered, lifted, droned away. The rest of the Lexington's planes followed, at 15 to 30-second intervals. Away from their carriers, against the sky, the planes looked bigger, changed from bees to birds. As they took their close-packed, triad formations, the ocean changed to a duck-marsh, with here wedges of swift teal (the fighters), here a group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate, any city in the world. New Yorkers...
...from stand to stand at the club's eight traps, until each had shot 400 targets apiece. A bright sun at the gunners' backs made visibility good against a horizon of clear sky and the waters of Long Island Sound, but sometimes the wind made the targets duck like wary things alive* and sometimes whirled them sideways, fast and low, at crazy angles...
...this year it hopes to raise $1,000,000 for the Congressional campaign. Its prime purpose is to elect Wet candidates to office. In 1928 it supported 19 nominees for the House, excluding sitting members. Two of its candidates were elected. It promotes such Wet rallies as the Black Duck mass meeting in Boston (TIME. Jan. 13), finances such Wet speakers as Maryland's Governor Ritchie. It largely stage-managed the Wet side of the House Judiciary Committee hearings by forehandedly arranging for the appearance as witnesses of such notables as William Wallace Atterbury and Pierre Samuel du Pont...