Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handles. In Taylorville, Ill., Florence Duck married Paul Drake. In Greenville, Tex., the H. B. Ducks named their new son Donald. Near Red Wing, Minn., the towboat Herbert Hoover pulled the Franklin D. Roosevelt off the rocks. In Omaha, joke-weary Bovio Palucca asked court permission to change his last name to Parke. In Manhattan, Alfred Papa became a papa...
Then it happened. During an exchange of wild rights, Joe took aim with his Sunday punch. Said Lou later, "I forgot to duck." He staggered up at the count of nine, was belted mercilessly along the ropes for a few seconds until Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight, one second before the bell...
...girl, so disguising his evil design with sulfurous similes and purple passion, he dazzles the dewey-eyed teacher from a sticks town in the States and wins her with a round-the-clock courtship. As we suspected, though, fate plays the trump card, and he falls like a lame duck right into her lap. The plot thickens when a rival strumpet, played to perfection by Paulette Goddard, disillusions Olivia about Boyer's soiled past, but the Rumanian's heart of gold, generated in the nick of time by the Hollywood alchemists, wins...
That would have been duck soup for No. 7013 if the fighter's manager (James Gleason) had not taken his boy's body from the plane wreckage and had it cremated. Only answer to that, inasmuch as he refuses to go through the trouble of being born over again, is to find him another body...
...Duck-billed Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior, has emitted some strange noises, but his latest squawk made U.S. motorists really jump. Secretary Ickes, now U.S. Oil Tsar, threatened the arrest of "jackrabbit" starters who needlessly burn up gas for the sake of fast getaways, car owners who fail to keep their old "oil-burner" crates tuned up to efficient combustion...