Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrified to learn that this gesture, called cornuto, is a well-known symbol for cuckoldry in Latin countries-horrified because I had in my ignorance and innocence used the identical gesture as a gag in a forthcoming Donald Duck picture, The Hockey Champ...
...Tennessee's Attorney-General Tom Stewart (of Scopes "monkey trial" fame). After Nominee Stewart had gone through the formality of being elected November 8, Senate Financial Clerk Charles F. Pace cut George Berry off the Senate payroll. Clerk Pace assumed that Mr. Berry was not a lame duck but a dead duck, that his tenure as an appointed Senator ended on the election of his successor instead of limping on until the new Congress meets (January 3) and regular Senators-elect are sworn...
...Nash Buckingham, Derrydale's headline author, is unknown to most plain readers, will probably remain so. But to sportsmen, who buy his sporting tales on sight, this middleaged, powerfully built Tennesseean is famed as the world's greatest long-range duck shot...
Second team: ends, Wyatt, Tennessee, and Holland, Cornell; tackles; Maronic, North Carolina, and Voigts, Northwestern; guards; Smith, Southern California, and McGoldrick, Notre Dame; center, Hill, Duck; backs; Lansdell, Southern California, Cafego, Tennessee, MacLeod, Dartmouth, and Weiss, Wisconsin...
...mastered enough hobbies to satisfy half-a-dozen ordinary men. His enormous library contains large sections on Africa, astronomy, bird life, reptiles, fungi, biography and geology. Books litter all his rooms, and jammed in every corner of Dr. Kelly's house are snakeskins, turtle shells, stuffed birds, a duck-billed platypus, buffalo legs. Up to a few years ago Dr. Kelly kept a zoo of 20-odd live snakes in a chamber...