Word: ducking
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Following Lampy's hors d'oeuvre the table of contents is served as a meat course. It is as rich as duck with stuffing. Walter Camp, described as the father of American sport, is eulogized by Alfred Hampton Barclay. Ernest E. Rogers follows Mr. Barclay with a how made on behalf of New London...
...WILD DUCK-Ibsen's horrible jest at all his own life stood for. Wherein a young idealist scatters several lives upon the desert of despondency...
Leda (Newking),a lady who has been painted by Paul Veronese, Correggio and Michael Angelo, bends in heroic contemplation of a swan as sturdy as a duck...
Entertainment on the stage (or for that matter in the aisles or in a public square or where you will) is fundamentally a story embroidered with movement, color and contrast. Judged by this standard (you can apply the same standard to "The Wild Duck" or "Ladies of the Evening") I am not sure that Mr. Dos Passos has truly succeeded. Nevertheless his story is essentially a corking good love story. The treatment sometimes slights the intensely, human and physical aspects of this story. But the lovers are very real people trying to make a hard reality out of the limp...
...WILD DUCK-Ibsen's curse upon idealism in an admirably portrayed revival...