Word: ducking
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...Cactus, Duck...
...influence. Actually he is and has always been totally independent, quieter than his late friend Senator LaFollette, firmer than his ponderous friend Senator Borah. Something unbending, something chilled by logic, leads him to conclusions whither not even political hotheads will follow, such as the abolition of the "lame duck" sessions of Congress and direct popular election of the President without benefit of politics...
...Wild duck, of many breeds, should be hunted, in warm jackets and waterproof boots, near Currituck Sound, N. C., Barnegat Bay, N. J., marshy shores along the Atlantic coast, on long dark lakes in the middle west and in club-blinds along the Great Lakes. In these last, at Sandusky, near Cleveland, President Cleveland used to go hunting...
...time when huntsmen oil their shotguns and go a-gunning for wild ducks. Now, too, is a time when Congressmen oil their tongues and try to escape being "lame ducks" when Congress sits after the election. This conjunction of times was a happy one for the duckhunters of Barnegat Bay, N. J., and for Representative Harold G. Hoffman. The hunters spoke to Mr. Hoffman, who smiled and spoke to Lieut. Commander H. V. Wiley of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, who bowed (figuratively) and spoke to his naval aviators, who said nothing but proceeded to obey a new order...
...great naval duckhunter is Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, who likes to have a Navy plane carry and fetch him between Washington and the salt marshes during the duck season. The new Barnegat order is not likely to disturb Duckhunter Robinson, nor any other Washington dignitary. From Washington one does not go northeast to shoot the wary?and slightly fishy?birds of Barnegat. One either goes due east, to the swarming Chesapeake ; or southeast, to the Rappahannock, York and James estuaries, to the drowsy Virginia Capes, to Currituck (where the luxurious blinds are con crete and have...