"Duck soup": To rescue the small country of Freedonia from bankruptcy, Mrs Teasdale agrees to donate 20 million dollars if Rufus T. Firefly is appointed its new president. "Horse feathers": Professor Quincy Wagstaff has just been installed as the new president of Huxley College. "Monkey business": While stowing away on a ship to America, the boys get involuntarily pressed into service as toughs for a pair of feuding gangsters. "Animal crackers": Captain Spaulding, the noted explorer, returns from Africa and attends a gala party held by Mrs. Rittenhouse. "The cocoanuts": Mr. Hammer runs a bankrupt hotel in Florida, where he will try anything to make money.