Word: ducking
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...himself and his pal out of a romantic dilemma, he also impersonates Dona Lucia d'Alvadorez, his rich aunt from Brazil, "where all the nuts come from." Decked out in a long black dress and a red wig, "with a face like a hatchet, a voice like a duck and a figure to match," Bolger makes a highly amusing if improbable lady-something like a cross between Whistler's Mother and the late Edna Mae Oliver...
...building. One day Art received a call at his office from a neighbor, asking whether he was willing to agree on the date of "C-Day." "When I asked for more information," he says, "her voice dripped ice, and it was obvious she thought I was trying to duck my share of the expense. I explained I was not Frank White, but Art. Since she had known Bill White, too, this was too much for her to swallow, and she bade me a gracious good-bye and hung...
...first omens were discouraging. When the train stopped at Emporia for a crew change, Ike's green campaign managers suddenly realized that it was time for the candidate to make a back-platform appearance. Then, to their horror, they discovered that the duck-tailed streamliner had no back platform. Ike spent the first few minutes waving and grinning through the windows at the crowd. A porter struggled with a small door at the rear of the car and finally got it open. Ike stepped to the door and was just reaching down to shake an upstretched hand...
...Belgian National Orchestra 1) a new composition none had ever played before, and 2) a well-practiced concerto of his own choice. This year's new composition, a fiercely atonal concerto by Belgian Composer Raymond Chevreuille, had the contestants in an uproar. Complained one: "Bartok and Prokofiev are duck soup compared to it." Said another, singling out two men who happened to be among the 13 contest judges: "Even Rubinstein and Casadesus couldn't play it." Concours officials agreed to lop off the third movement for the decisive test...
...Folsom, chairman of Sawyer's committee. "Wage controls have broken down; there is no evidence of general inflationary pressure." It was put more simply by Council Member Charles E. Wilson, ex-mobilization boss, who had recently been urging continued controls. "The controls program," said Wilson, "is a dead duck...