Word: ducking
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...funny if you are an aquatic bird (duck, heron, egret, gallinule, spoonbill, ibis, bittern crane) and, having flown down to Florida for the winter, find your favorite lagoon drained dry. You have worked up a raging appetite flapping your way over New York grain fields, Pennsylvania coal fields, Virginia tobacco fields and Southern cotton fields. You sight the palm-tufted everglades, set your wings to plane down, and what does your watering beak encounter? Minnows, frogs, juicy bulbs, slimy, succulent crawfish? No. There are pipelines, dredges, real estate signs, empty cut-plug tins, discarded overalls, splintered flasks, old shoes, sapling...
Hale old men with the bodies of boys, hale old men with the minds of children, grand seigneurs, curmudgeons in every condition of physical decay, Paunch, Thin-Shank, Webfoot Waddle-Duck, and erect, haughty old men with life's ensign still crimson in their cheeks, journeyed to the Apawamis Club in Rye N. C., to play in the annual U. S. Seniors golf tournament Among them were famed lawyers and financial figures, a retired rear admiral,* the president of a great insurance company?; they played, each according to his fashion, around the Apawamis course. There were inumerable prizes?...
...Ibsen, of course, is Northfield's patron literary saint. The man in the drug store or the girl who serves you dinner can tell you about him. Indeed, some friends of mine who live there entertained one night at dinner and, of course, discussed Ibsen. The Wild Duck formed a part of the discussion and one of the guests in particular expounded his idea of its meaning...
...next morning the Norwegian maid who had served the dinner informed the lady of the house that the guest was entirely in error. 'I was a maid in the Ibsen household when The Wild Duck was written, and I know all about it.' And she proceeded to tell the story...
...ominous, muttering ice-floes of Melville Bay. While the ships were jammed, their crews ventured overside for snow-fights on the floes; for long walks, two miles over the groaning pan ice to the nearest open water. Animal life abounded on the frozen bay-flocks of little auks, eider duck, sportive seals and an occasional roving polar bear. One 800-lb. female bear swung up alongside the Bowdoin, was received with a bullet by MacMillan. Doctors of the party cut out the poisonous liver and brain, the empty stomach, for study...