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Word: ducks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME hits a new low [April 4] with so much space devoted to Diego Rivera. Even his leering likeness on your cover is more nauseous to my stomach (uncultured though it may be) than any amount of overripe duck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...sseldorf, the Ruhr's money and fashion capital, is drab and desolate. But by night, scrap dealers and black marketeers crowd into such slick cellar restaurants as the Goldene Treppe (Golden Staircase), where they dine on smoked salmon and duck at $12 a meal, and into such cafés as the Allotria (Tomfoolery), where they jitterbug to Bel Mir Bist Du Schön with heavily rouged hostesses known in Germany as Animierdamen-"animation ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Faceless Crisis | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...know," he said, "the highest pitch of French cuisine is canard faisandé-duck that has been hung a long time, so you can smell the bouquet. Very enjoyable to the educated nose. But if you offer it to the workers they will throw the rotten duck out, unless they throw it in your face. Now . . . the kitchen of the high bourgeoisie will make the proletarian vomit, and the paintings of the high bourgeoisie will make him vomit too-though this is nothing against the duck, or against modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Long Voyage Home | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Exhibition of the world's largest captive dip-duck will take place today at noon, Roy F. Gootenberg '49, publicist of Harvard's AVC, announced last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Titanic Dip-Duck Guzzler Parades | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

constructed by a group of Tech students, and featuring a motor mechanism behind, Gootenberg refused to say whether the duck would be drinking beer or other intoxicants common to the bird's former habits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Titanic Dip-Duck Guzzler Parades | 3/31/1949 | See Source »

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