From now on, his was going to be a man's world: the North Woods, duck blinds at dawning, beer and poker and male secretaries.

And even in those that he was successful this would be temporary, just until a mistake or chance event caused another failure, another disappointment for the frustrated duck.

Though he originally just contributed gag ideas to some duck cartoons by 1937 Barks was ( principally with partner Jack Hannah ) originating story ideas that were storyboarded and ( if approved by Walt ) put into production.

Madison was involved in the project mainly because he was a delegate to the lame duck Confederation Congress, which was meeting in New York.

It was also known in England that Bradman was dismissed for a four-ball duck by fast bowler Eddie Gilbert, and looked very uncomfortable.

The match was drawn and Woodfull struggled, making 18 and a duck.

On the opening day, Bradman wildly hooked at Bill Bowes ' first ball ( a non-bodyline ball ) and was dismissed for a golden duck, leaving the entire stadium in shock.

The Labrador Duck ( Camptorhynchus labradorius ) was a striking black and white eider-like sea duck that was never common, and is believed to be the first bird to become extinct in North America after 1500.

Although hunted for food, this duck was considered to taste bad, would rot quickly and fetched a low price.

" She was escorted into a waiting room, and when granted access to see her husband, he quipped to her, " Honey, I forgot to duck ", borrowing the defeated boxer Jack Dempsey's jest to his wife.

Balls Pond Road in Islington was named after an establishment run by a Mr Ball that had a duck pond at the rear, where drinkers could, for a fee, go out and take a potshot the ducks.

This meant that, every other year, although a new Congress was elected in November, it did not come into office until the following March, with a " lame duck " Congress convening in the interim.

Already a lame duck Vice President, he was elected to the Senate by the South Carolina state legislature and resigned the Vice Presidency early to begin his Senate term because he believed he would have more power as a senator.

The word ened / ænid was inherited from Proto-Indo-European ; compare: Latin anas " duck ", Lithuanian ántis " duck ", Ancient Greek nēssa / nētta ( νῆσσα, νῆττα ) " duck ", and Sanskrit ātí " water bird ", among others.

Pearson's version not only conflated details of both slapping incidents but falsely reported that the private in question was visibly " out of his head ", telling Patton to " duck down or the shells would hit him " and that in response " Patton struck the soldier, knocking him down.

The first material called " duck tape " was long strips of plain cotton duck cloth used in making shoes stronger, for decoration on clothing, and for wrapping steel cables or electrical conductors to protect them from corrosion or wear.

In the 1910s, certain boots and shoes used canvas duck fabric for the upper or for the insole, and duck tape was sometimes sewn in for reinforcement.

Another, completely unrelated, duck with similar ( but even more specialized ) bill morphology is the Australian Pink-eared Duck, which feeds largely on plankton, but also mollusks ; the condition in the Labrador Duck probably resembled that in the Blue Duck most in outward appearance.

This word replaced Old English ened / ænid " duck ", possibly to avoid confusion with other Old English words, like ende " end " with similar forms.

Other Germanic languages still have similar words for " duck ", for example, Dutch eend " duck " and German Ente " duck ".

His physical appearance is similar to the duck mask in the original Mighty Ducks logo.

Tex Avery, for whom Clampett worked as an animator in the mid-1930s, borrowed strongly from this cartoon for his 1948 MGM cartoons Half-Pint Pygmy ( in which the characters, George and Junior, travel to Africa in search of the world's smallest pygmy, only to discover that he has an uncle who's even smaller ) and The Cat That Hated People ( where the cat travels to the moon and encounters an array of characters similar to those in Clampett's Wackyland, e. g., a pair of gloves and lips that keep saying " Mammy, mammy ", just like the Al Jolson duck in Porky in Wackyland ).

The imperial throne also presented porridge to officials, and even dyed chicken and duck eggs, similar to the practice on Easter in the Western world.

Fossil bones of a very similar duck have been found in Early Pleistocene deposits at Dursunlu, Turkey.

The only duck which is at all similar is the drake North American Ring-necked Duck, which however has a different head shape, no tuft and greyish flanks.

Earth-C-Minus featured Aquaduck, a duck version of Aquaman with similar powers.

In his 1807 Almanach des Gourmands, gastronomist Grimod de La Reynière presents his rôti sans pareil (" roast without equal ")— a bustard stuffed with a turkey, a goose, a pheasant, a chicken, a duck, a guinea fowl, a teal, a woodcock, a partridge, a plover, a lapwing, a quail, a thrush, a lark, an ortolan bunting and a garden warbler — although he states that, since similar roasts were produced by ancient Romans, the rôti sans pareil was not entirely novel.

Grade 1 listed Tythrop Park in Kingsey is listed as having an early duck decoy similar to that in Boarstall Duck Decoy in Buckinghamshire.

The Carcassonne version is similar but doubles the portion of mutton and sometimes replaces the duck with partridge.

Old Chinese tapestries also portray a duck similar in appearance to the Crested Shelduck.

This duck nests in a tree cavity laying 9 – 11 cream-white eggs, similar to the Mandarin ducks.

There is also a duck pond similar to the one at South Norwood Lake.

Cook also gave this name to a breed of duck with a similar purpose, but known simply as the Buff Duck in North America.

The most frequently used meat is pork, followed by beef, lamb, chicken, rabbit, duck and goose ; for immediate consumption it is often grilled, or dusted with breadcrumbs and sauteed, in a dish similar to schnitzel.

The wine he produced was given the name Kaltes Ende (" cold end " in German ), until it was humorously altered to the similar sounding term Kalte Ente meaning " cold duck ".

It is a medium sized duck and is similar in size but when seen in pairs the male is noticeably bigger.

Despite having paler feathers, the female duck from this cartoon physically appears very similar to Melissa from The Scarlet Pumpernickel ; even more so than the designs in Muscle Tussle and Nasty Quacks.

In Stork Naked ( 1955 ), Daffy is married to a duck named Daphne who, once again, appears very similar to Daffy but this time wears a blue bow in her head.

On American Bandstand ( and similar shows ), Dees lip-synched to the recording, alone on stage with puppeteer Rickey Provow animating a duck puppet that he had made.

He said " When the man ( W. C. Fields ) is funny he is terrific ... but the story is makeshift, the other characters are stock types, the only pace discernible is the distance between drinks or the rhythm of the fleeting seconds it takes Fields to size up trouble and duck the hell out.

His biographer Kenneth Barrow writes on the cause of his death: " Perhaps the asthma had weakened him but, in fact, it was discovered he had a brain tumour the size of a duck egg and cerebral thrombosis was certified as the primary cause of death.

Over the 19th century selective breeding for size, shape and colour led to the Aylesbury duck.

By the 1950s only one significant flock of Aylesbury ducks remained in Buckinghamshire, and by 1966 there were no duck breeding or rearing businesses of any size remaining in Aylesbury itself.

* White ( boiled ) and sugar-browned potatoes, red cabbage and brown sauce ( gravy ) accompanying either roast duck or goose depending on the size of the family.

The other form of duck decoy, otherwise known as a hunting decoy or wildfowl decoy, is a life – size model of the creature.

The Laysan Duck ( Anas laysanensis ), also known as the Laysan Teal because of its small size, is an endangered dabbling duck endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.

Babs once aptly described him as " the silly green duck with an ego the size of Cleveland.

Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size, and because this duck is hunted for eggs, pets and food, the White-winged Duck is evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The bird's call is a sharp whee-hyah sounding very similar to a " rubber duck " toy and particularly is loud for a bird its size.