Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sharkey will beat Scott," predicted Conley. "Without criticizing the erect English style of fighting, I'll point out that in the American crouching position the left shoulder affords more protection, the stomach muscles are tighter, and it is easier to duck a left jab to the head...
...acquired coal mines, dipped into politics, was carried to Washington as Kentucky's Senator by the Coolidge sweep of 1924. Short, sandy, round-stomached, he plodded through his term, rarely made a speech, much less an oration. He was on the way to becoming a "lame duck" in this year's campaign when President Hoover selected him for Berlin for two chief reasons: 1) Republican Kentucky was restive from lack of Class-A patronage; 2) Senator Sackett had been Mr. Hoover's Kentucky food administrator during...
...Attorney General's youth, of his ample energy, is his vigorous outdoor life. He is the Cabinet's best golfer. It is a bad day for him when he does not shoot an 85 at the Burning Tree Club, Washington's hardest course. He goes duck hunting along the Potomac in the fall, spends his summers at White Bear Lake, Minn., where he fishes, sails, shoots. His hobbies: amateur cinematography, driving his Packard...
...Magistrate of Megntzu, the Commander of the Megntzu garrison, the President of the Agricultural Society, the Director of the Megntzu Wireless Station, all the municipal department heads and business leaders of the community. Politely they praised the swallow's nest soup, deviled shark's fin, boneless lacquered duck, and vintage eggs. Deeply they drank of the bandit's excellent rice wine...
...hard-hitting debate was in progress in the House of Representatives one day last week over the killing of three smugglers on the rumrunner Black Duck...