Word: ducking
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Until it came time to move, the Atlanta Constitution never realized how much junk it had around the house. There was a steamboat wheel in a tobacco-stained corner, a stuffed mallard duck suspended uncertainly over the city desk, a sign that said: DON'T STARE AT THE EDITOR-YOU MAY BE CRAZY YOURSELF SOME...
Suave salesmen will describe to her the merits of an English shooting stick. They will talk up the all-purpose economy of a hand-carved duck decoy which, used for hunting in season, doubles as a door stop in winter, spring, and summer. On their shelves also is a cellophane-wrapped circular bread board, strapped to which are a bottle of sherry decorated with a bunch of grapes, a wedge of cheese, and a loaf of crusty bread...
...shooting stick might be restful for long waits outside the H. A. A. ticket office. The hand-carved duck could be sailed in a bathtub. The sherry, grapes, cheese, and bread may be, as the circular puts it, "just the gift for midnight cocoa parties in the dorm." But of all these items, and such others as a cerise-and-yellow Tattersall checked waistcoat, a set of Chinese checkers, dominees and dice encased in tooled leather, and a solid-gold hunting knife for skinning the game in field or forest, fifty Harvard undergraduates chosen at random offer a negative estimate...
R.S.V.P. In New Orleans, Duck-Calling Champion Clement Estain took his gun and his quack out hunting on the second day of the season, quacked, and got shot...
...time, but many of the others are still in the misty spray of final selection. With Ted Norris, national long distance titleholder, and Jerry Gorman, Eastern Intercollegiate 440 yd. Champion, this half-mile grind will provide close competition for the audience even if the opposition is swimming a dophlogisticated duck. Neither man is a kind of performer who would be satisfied with three points even if he know five were in the team pocket already...