Word: covey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poster outside an enlistment office in Newark, N. J. had to be taken down last week. Reason: It was too effective. Its screaming eagle and covey of zooming pursuit planes made every recruit want to join the Air Corps. To lean, soft-spoken Major Thomas B. Woodburn, this was cause for quiet satisfaction. With the U. S. Army upped to 227,000 men by Presidential proclamation, it is Tom Woodburn's job to boom recruiting. He paints posters to that end, rejoiced to hear that his latest was so attractive...
When one-fifth of the people of the U. S. want to know where there's a covey of quail, or a good trout hole, who's had a baby, what fresh cow is for sale, or how the road is down river way-they ask the.R. F. D. carrier. He or she (there are 323 shes among 32,988 U. S. rural mail-carriers) also has a good idea of who is going to vote for whom in an election year, and can do a lot toward getting folks to vote this way or that...
Irene and The Joy of Living with Irene Dunne; Stage Door with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers; Victoria the Great with Anton Walbrook and Anna Neagle; and a covey of new celebrities including Joan Fontaine, sister of Warner Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland...
Sulu, Andrew G. C. Gage's graceful pointer bitch, found only one covey, showing much of the style but little of the nose for birds which won her last year's championship. Homewood Flirtatious, the 1935 winner, did no better. Famed Doctor Blue Willing has won more major field trials than any living bird dog, but the National has always eluded him. Making his fifth try this year, the gallant, hammer-headed old pointer seemed shaky and uncertain, spent much time roaming off course, located only two coveys. Saddler, a 4-year-old pointer who should have known...
Best performance of the first week was turned in by Doctor Blue Willing's kennel-mate, Air Pilot Sam. This handsome pointer found five coveys and one single, but made a false point and obeyed none too well for his famed handler, Ed Farrior. The judges also liked Golfer Glenna Collett Vare's Tips's Manitoba Jake and G. M. Livingstone's Shanghai Express, called them back for a run-off when the first series was over. Shanghai started off with a false point, handled one covey with style and finish, then sinned heinously by flushing...