Word: duck
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duck Hunters attention: Issue...
...melodramatic moil of cinema is a strange background for Helen Chandler. A fragile blonde, she gained stage fame as a wistful tragedienne (Hedwig in The Wild Duck; Ophelia in Hamlet; Marguerite in Faust}. Her story of her life...
...learned that wild ducks and geese fly about 10,000 miles a season. Long distance champion is the Arctic tern, which wings some 20,000 miles per season, nesting in the Arctic, wintering in the Antarctic. Chief Redington declared that the number of migratory game birds is fast dwindling in the U. S. Every citizen has a right to kill them in season (some states allow 25 such killings a day). Modern hunters use modern mass-destruction methods, such as automatic and repeating shotguns, live decoys, baited ducking grounds. Ducks die by the million from improper refuges like the Bear...
...limit. In October, Outdoor Life said: "We place the blame for the situation squarely where it belongs-on Paul G. Redington . . . who in failing to recommend a reduction has . . . laid himself open to the serious charge that he is under the influence of a clique of influential duck hogs who do their shooting in states where ducks concentrate, and . . . want the highest possible bag limit. . . .* We condemned the survey's widely publicized duck census because . . . Redington was using counting-the-ducks as a smoke screen to hide his true motives for opposing the reduction...
...Duck-shooting members of the federal government include Secretary of State Stimson, Attorney-General Mitchell, Senators Robinson of Arkansas, Shipstead of Minnesota, Reed of Pennsylvania. No duck hogs they...