Word: baying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from San Antonio. Houston, Orange, Corpus Christi. Louisiana, Mexico and the Valley. There were 1,500 Boy Scouts on hand. In most of the Valley towns there were free lunches. Army bands. Variously they had a rodeo, a wild-animal act, performing elephants, sound trucks. A song. Along the Bay, was written for the occasion. There was a special Christmas vespers service...
...duck, Ross's goose is the smallest and rarest of American species. It is white, with black wing tips. Northmen call it the "galoot" or "scabby-nosed wavey" (its bill has rough bumps at the base). Its official name came from Bernard R. Ross, a Hudson's Bay Co. factor at Fort Resolution. In autumn the birds migrate south and west to spend the winter in California valleys...
...Perry River, which runs into the Arctic Ocean at Queen Maud Gulf, southeast of big Victoria Island. Last summer Gillham chartered a plane, flew over the Perry River region, saw so many of the birds that he was certain the breeding grounds were there. But floating ice in the bay prevented a landing...
Gillham made friends with Angus Gavin, a Hudson's Bay Co. trader, and whipped up in Gavin a hot excitement for the search. Gavin had himself transferred to the Perry River post. Some Canadian sportsmen and bird-lovers proselytized Gavin's boss, who authorized and financed an expedition. Gavin and a friend set out with a 16-ft. sled carrying supplies and an 18-ft. canoe. They sledged five miles up the river, then reached open water and took to the canoe. Fifteen miles farther up they came to an unnamed, uncharted lake, dotted with small islands...
...song. His previous rummages have covered popular music from early Stephen Foster days to latest Irving Berlin. Tin Pan Alley, going to no extremes in either history or histrionics, merely parenthesizes a few years before and during World War I, punctuates them with such pleasant oldtime numbers as Moonlight Bay, K-K-K-Katy. A few anachronisms like Honeysuckle Rose and The Sheik of Araby are also thrown in, on the Hollywood theory that anything older than Who is so far back nobody will care in what year it was written...