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Word: mcduff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...sultry afternoon last month, the four bought tickets for Hong Kong. Wong sat in the rear of the plane. Chiu Tok chose a seat near the compartment where two pilots, Dale Cramer, an American, and K. S. McDuff, sat at the controls. The pirates looked hungrily at four of their fellow passengers. They were Chinese millionaires who would bring fat ransoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Pilots & Pirates | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...course for Hong Kong. Below, off Nine Islands, a scattered fleet of fishing junks spread their lugsails against the sky. Chiu Tok moved forward, ordered Senior Pilot Cramer to surrender the controls to him. One of the passengers rose to interfere. The pirates shot him. Co-Pilot McDuff grabbed an iron flag bar and swung on Chiu Tok. In a panic, the pirates fired wildly at the two pilots. Cramer slumped dead over the controls. As screaming passengers spilled into the aisle, the plane came around in a wide circle. Out of control, it plummeted down into the South China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: Pilots & Pirates | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

...Margie McDuff is a thoroughly nice high-school girl, on love with most everyone around, equipped with a social conscience, a catarrhal boy-friend and a fortress of an aunt. Her major handicap schemed to be a pair of nervous drawers which succumb to the excitement at least three throughout the film and slump ignominiously to the ground, thereby embarrassing Miss McDuff only one quarter as much as all unsuspecting males in the audience. Miss McDuff's drawers become so excruciatingly annoying that at last debacle, when the sweet young thing is dancing in the arms of the handsome teacher...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/15/1946 | See Source »

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