Word: ducks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...knows exactly what happened to Bob Best. Columnist Dorothy Thompson believes he turned traitor because he is "intellectually lazy" and "ignorant." Author William L. Shirer says Bob Best "stayed too long in Europe." Some had always thought him a queer duck, with a fanatical religious bent. One correspondent who worked with him said: "I always figured he was an eccentric, but I never thought he was a son of a bitch...
France's renowned Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot showed his study of the ruins of the 900-year-old Abbey at Jumiéges, a Seine village a few miles beyond Normandy's ancient capital, Rouen. Celebrated for its churches, duck pâté, sugar candy made of apples, and for the martyrdom of Joan of Arc, Rouen was the scene of paintings by Pissarro, Guillaumin, and Normandy's almost unknown but excellent Albert Lebourg, who died, paralyzed, at Rouen only 15 years ago. Lebourg's three paintings of the Seine near Rouen were infused with...
Combining actual color glimpses of South America with the cartoons, the picture is divided into four sequences. The first concerns tourist Donald Duck, camera in hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American...
Saludos Amigos (José Carioca, Donald Duck, El Gaucho Goofy; TIME...
...N.M.U. sees in this program a direct threat to its power. Most recruits are pink-cheeked, corn-fed youngsters from the Midwest who have never seen deep water, or been exposed to unionism. They are far different from the old-line shellback malcontents who were duck soup for Curran's earlier pinko type of organizing, and they are not obliged to hold union cards. Only 1,000 to 1,500 monthly swing over to N.M.U. This percentage is not big enough if Curran is to hold his grip...