Word: ducking
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Mackenzie King would not say, in so many words, "I resign." He could not risk spending seven months as a lame duck. He 'could not forget that some crisis might keep him in office. But barring the unforeseeable, Mackenzie King would shortly lay down his stewardship...
Well they may be wearing Donald Duck pajamas at Princeton, but they aren't doing it in Cambridge--at least not according to "College" magazine, a just-published little periodical that boldly claims to be the "only national collegiate journal in the country...
...forever thankful for learning in TIME "steatopygic" in place of "duck-shaped...
...California game warden brought home the biggest bag of the 1947 duck season: Cinemactors Clark Gable, Frank Morgan and Johnny Mack Brown. The warden said that he had caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...
Last week, the Constitution moved, lock, stock & stuffed duck from its cluttered, turreted brick building to a new, $1,500,000, streamlined, aluminum-trimmed plant. The new building was, roughly, Georgia-shaped. To prepare the staff for the shock of a clean newsroom with wastebaskets and ash trays, a quiet memo was issued: "We are going to have the desks dusted every night...