Word: quails
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...extra-curricular activ- ities. Almost everyone has a loyalty to at least one, and most students spend over an hour a day on it. The desire to belong, and that way get some measure of prestige, leads to such activities as the "Ale, Stick and Ball" Society," the "Ale. Quail, Chowder and Marching Society," and "The Haunt Club." The last yearbook ran formal photos and write-ups on the "President Tilden Club" and the "Good Guys Club of America...
...Jean (The Duenna) Karsavina's libretto, the mustachioed gambler challenges champion frog Dan'l Webster's owner Smiley, then feeds Dan'l up on quail shot while the boys are outside laying their bets for the easy money. Before the contest comes off, the gambler strolls off for a mustache-twirling romance-which provides Composer Foss with an opportunity for some witty, satirical mustache-twirling music. Dan'l loses the contest, but the villain's villainies are found out, and he is brought to frontier justice...
...many Western states the native game birds (prairie chickens, sage hens, scaled quail, etc.) are rapidly disappearing. They do not adjust to the white man's civilization. But in the Near East, which has a similar climate and vegetation, there are plenty of fine, flourishing birds that have got along with civilized man for many millennia. One of them is the meaty bustard (crane family), which sometimes weighs as much as 30 Ibs. Among others are the decorative, long-tailed francolin (a kind of partridge) and a varied assortment of edible grouse. Some of the birds, Dr. Bump hopes...
Prairie Chickens, Yes. Brownie, owned by Montana Mining Magnate Gerald Livingston, who keeps a string of 75 fine dogs at a 40,000-acre plantation at Quitman, Ga., was no newcomer to the Tennessee quail country. Though none but dogs with victories in other top trials may run at Ames Plantation, Brownie had managed the feat of qualifying for the National Championship as a derby (i.e., when he was less than two years old) in 1947. He had qualified annually since. But though he did well elsewhere-he won the National Pheasant Championship, the Continental Championship, was runner...
...Dead Quail, No. Within five minutes Brownie froze in a perfect point. He stood unflinchingly as his professional trainer, a quiet, rawboned outdoorsman named George Evans, dismounted and fired a shotgun in the air. Quail drummed up out of the grass (birds are not killed at out-of-season trials), and Brownie raced away again. After that he performed with brilliance, steadiness and wisdom. Spunky Pete disgraced himself by racing clear out of view and staying lost for 32 minutes, but Brownie went on hunting faultlessly and tirelessly hour after hour. When he was finally called in, tongue lolling, chest...