Word: ducking
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Ickes saw himself as a modest man. He was genuinely hurt when he was portrayed, at a Gridiron Club dinner, as a strutting, vain Donald Duck. Said he: "Of course this was really offensive . . . No man is a judge of himself, but I have completely fooled myself if I give the impression to anyone that I am conceited and possess a feeling of superiority over other men." Yet Ickes could describe his part in a political radio debate in these words: "He [Ickes' opponent] expected the head-down, arm-flailing rush, trying to beat him into a corner...
This is the Voice of Audubon. There is a small loon, a redhead duck and an American coot on Jamaica Pond. Brown-capped chickadees and "white-winged crossbills may be seen in the Arnold Arboretum . . What birds do you have to report...
...first four days, Mrs. Emery's Voice of Audubon had about 500 calls a day. Inevitably, a few odd specimens got on the tape, such as "a pink duck with blue stripes," "a Saltonstall pretending to be a senator," and "two lame ducks on Tremont Street...
...Durocher in a parody of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. But the mutiny (Benny takes over the management of the Giants during the World Series) was a good deal funnier than the court-martial. ABC's Disneyland scored another ten-strike with a show devoted to Donald Duck from his inception until his final glowering flowering. CBS's Ed Murrow had another good Person to Person program, with Lillian Gish arguing charmingly but ineptly for a Secretary of Fine Arts to be added to the President's Cabinet, and Robert Q. Lewis surprising few viewers by denying...
...these people. The abuses of McCarthy are so patent, they believe, that only one conclusion is possible: censure. Because the Senate proceedings seem likely to run against him, and have temporarily halted his scattergun investigations, many wishful focus of the Senator have written him off as a political dead duck...