Word: mallard
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...Sense of Altitude. Another Curtin story suggests that birds, like planes, may be downed by wing-icing: a pilot reported that one night, after he had been forced down at Portage, Wis., hundreds of mallard ducks also landed in the streets of the town, their wings heavily ice-coated...
When Luke ran away with all her money, Amber found herself first in debt and then in Newgate Prison. There she met Highwayman Black Jack Mallard ("earrings seemed only to accentuate his almost threatening masculinity"). When he was finally hanged, Amber became an actress...
Mabel the mallard duck with her must in front of the Student club is undoubtedly one of the best attended mallard ducks in the countryside. Mabel not only has father duck bringing her choice edibles. . . she has a certain (jg) bringing her bread crumbs from Cowie Hall . . . Also within duck-bill length Mabel has a bowl full of water which said (jg) also religiously fills. I can't mention the (jg's) name. . . . He outranks me. . . . In fact, he is very rank at times...
Ducky. In Stony Brook, L. I., Merton Powell swore he saw some ducks pull an arrow out of the middle of a mallard, which then flew off with its friends...
Grab Bag. Near Oklahoma City a flock of startled ducks flew into a duck hunter, who grabbed with one hand, bagged a mallard drake alive...