Word: ducking
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...Attorney General's youth, of his ample energy, is his vigorous outdoor life. He is the Cabinet's best golfer. It is a bad day for him when he does not shoot an 85 at the Burning Tree Club, Washington's hardest course. He goes duck hunting along the Potomac in the fall, spends his summers at White Bear Lake, Minn., where he fishes, sails, shoots. His hobbies: amateur cinematography, driving his Packard...
...Magistrate of Megntzu, the Commander of the Megntzu garrison, the President of the Agricultural Society, the Director of the Megntzu Wireless Station, all the municipal department heads and business leaders of the community. Politely they praised the swallow's nest soup, deviled shark's fin, boneless lacquered duck, and vintage eggs. Deeply they drank of the bandit's excellent rice wine...
...hard-hitting debate was in progress in the House of Representatives one day last week over the killing of three smugglers on the rumrunner Black Duck...
Last month at a Washington meeting of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board a resolution to reduce the bag limit was passed. Last week Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde announced that upon his recommendation the duck-bag will be reduced from 25 to 15 per day; the geese-bag from 8 to 4. The possession limit will be 30 ducks, 8 geese...
...preserves. Last week impetus was given to their cause by an announcement from the National Association of Audubon societies that great numbers of water fowl are being destroyed by oil on coastal waters. The oil residue, which comes from coastwise ships, gathers in the bays and inlets where the ducks rest. Once it reaches a duck, the oil glues his feathers together and, unable to swim, he dies...