Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...others. "I am inclined to believe that this is the worst of the lot. He loves poetry-obviously-yet all he can do is to make it sound ridiculous. 'Listen to this, boys ' he says. 'Isn't it beautiful?' And he proceeds to quack or mouth or bleat out something which is a travesty of the beauty which has truly moved him. ... He is addicted to giving classes poems to learn by heart . . . I was put off Milton for years by a fool who made me learn the sonnet On His Blindness when...
...mile stretch on Big Seatuck Creek alone, nearly 1,000,000 ducks are being raised this year. It all started when Farmer W. W. Hallock bought some of Yankee Palmer's eggs and began raising "Pekin" ducks. The ducks thrived on the sandy soil and the tidal streams. Quack Farmer Hallock soon had plenty of rivals...
...great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they got for duck feathers for airmen's vests...
...favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another quack ... A Republican Henry Wallace...
Suiting his gait to his brightly-emblazoned jumper motif, Ccedrice waddled from a strategic puddle in the Square. "Of course I always rely on the impeccable taste of Lockit Company. Look here," he exclaimed, producing a clipping from a convenient quack in his ducky attire. "Harvard will be wearing purple guppies on pink underdrawers for the summer season. You bet I'll own them," he gurgled. "They give me such a feeling...