Word: covey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went a covey of quail, flushed "wild" by the too-eager dogs. The President raised his gun but did not fire. Soon Flossie, smartest of the setters, whipped into a point. The President walked up and-blam-missed the single bird that whirred away. There were four more points, four more blams. Not a feather was cut. The President went home "skunked." Col. Starling suggested that the trouble was the full-choke bore of the Presidential gun, patterned for trapshooting rather than live game. From the way he shrugged and scowled, it seemed the President blamed his bulky green mackinaw...
...have always felt that Toledo is only as great as its industries," explained President Alfred B. Koch in describing the origin of this impressive show. In order suitably to glorify these industries, the department store turned to Art. It scorned half measures, hired Arthur Covey, internationally famed mural painter. Six times he visited Toledo and peered appreciatively at Toledo industry. He went to work, telling the story of Toledo with tubes of paint & with brushes...
...with stark commercialism, determined to bring to their city all the concentrated beauty that a staggering sum of money could buy. It stands today one of the finest public collections in the western world. It was unquestionably the influence of this museum that prompted Lasalle & Koch to engage Artist Covey as their window-dresser. Nor did they engage him to help sell shoes and pots and furniture. Not one item of their stock was to be placed in their windows during the twelve days the pictures were on exhibition...
Shortly before the accident, Buenos Aires, led by its mayor, had thronged the harbor to watch the covey of broad-winged Loening amphibians come swooping in from Mer del Plata, the Argentine's summer capital. Crowds had followed, by motor and field-glass, as the ships rose again and repaired to Palomar for the night...
...that spotted the field, swaying past poised tacklers; and the roar of the prodigious hippodrome rose to delirium, for it seemed for a moment that he might get away, might do the thing that was half-expected of him and end his 20th game with a touchdown. But a covey of runners brushed down on him, bore him out of bounds before he had run 43 yards. The 85,000 went home, content. They had seen what they came for. They had seen, also, Marek (Ohio State) break lose from one tackier, jump another, cross Grange's goal line...