Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a no-defeat record behind him, Allen was understandably anxious to duck out before something might come along to spoil it. But for all his hurry, he left behind at least one work for the new Republican Congress to remember him by-a bill to simplify and reorganize the multi-unit RFC, strip it of its wartime and emergency powers, and provide for its eventual liquidation...
...also owned by Bakewell, an Eastern dog named Scoronine, and a picturesque Golden retriever with a storybook name-Stilrovin Nitro Express. Some of the others had lost out by committing sins of youth and inexperience: 1) breaking ahead of the signal, 2) going after a decoy instead of a duck, 3) biting the birds too hard. On the water tests, excitable Little Pierre, who was not yet four, hit the water like an outboard motor, bore down on the floating ducks and hustled back. But when the chips were down, Pierre handled badly. So did the Golden. Scoronine...
...funny or poignant, and which now somehow misfire, that the passage of time is evident. For instance, in one of the first scenes two soldiers are talking of the wonders of being civilians again. One is remarking to the other how great it is to be wearing the ruptured duck when the second soldier breaks in to say, "that ain't no ruptured duck, that's a bird of paradise." When one was still getting used to wearing civilian clothes again, that line was funny, but it left the audience at the Shubert the other night completely cold...
Ernest Hemingway was having the time of his life. Just arrived in Manhattan from Idaho, where he had been shooting duck, he skipped off to Gardiner's Island, N.Y. as the guest of Poloist Winston Guest, to shoot duck...
Farther north, the biggest and noisiest hunting show the U.S. had ever known was already well under way. There were few pheasant, practically no ruffed grouse, few duck, but the guns roared anyhow. On Chesapeake Bay, duck hunters cussed the "bluebird"weather -balmy days when the redhead and canvasback like to sit on the water, and the men in the blinds see few duck overhead. In Washington, an unseasonable freeze-up sent birds hightailing south through the state in two days. But there were plenty of white-tailed deer, plenty of ammunition, and plenty of hunters (some ten million...