Word: coveys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Easter Week Rebellion. Mr. O'Casey has no illusions about that shabby affray. His Commandant Jack Clitheroe of the Irish Citizen Army is a crack-brained patriot who is willing to die for his country but not to live for it. An idealistic Socialist called "The Covey" does not have the courage to go out into the streets for the doctrines he preaches when the guns begin to roll. The whole cast of tenement dwellers are represented as drunken, excitable dunderheads who have small belief in, and no comprehension of, the patriotic rant they scream at one another...
Peering into the refrigerator of Atlanta's swanky Piedmont Driving Club. Georgia's Game & Fish Commissioner found a covey of frozen quail. The State regulation: No game to be kept after the hunting season, already closed two months. The penalty: $1.000 fine and twelve months on the chain-gang. The culprits: Clark Howell Jr., business manager of Atlanta's Constitution, Regent of Georgia University; Ernest Woodruff, director of Coca-Cola; Ryburn Clay, Ronald Ransom, F. W. Blalockt president, executive vice president & vice president of Atlanta's Fulton National; Robert F. Maddox, director of Atlanta...
...first amateur handlers in years to go up against the professionals in this stake, was there with a flashy little setter called Sports Peerless who won the gallery's fancy with his cautious wiggling and creeping when close to birds. He found and handled nine coveys perfectly in his three hours, to four coveys for his pointer bracemate, Shore's Carolina Jack. Another fine race was run by Jacob France's big pointer Kremlin who, under adverse conditions, found eight coveys and several singles and finished fast and fresh. But the best brace...
...five or six years have quail been so plentiful as this year on the Ames Plantation. And this year Hobart Ames was able to show his guests many a covey of the curious red quail which, discovered on his place, he has been fostering ardently. These birds, which he believes to be a rare species rather than a mutation, have all the characteristics of plain bob white but their plumage is a dark reddish brown, solid except for, on some specimens, one round white spot on the breast. From three cocks and a hen trapped five years ago Mr. Ames...
...fear & trembling most of Montreal went about repeating Samuel Butler's words last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard St. Denis. Soon they were popping on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Jean Talon, St. André and De Fleurimont Streets. Mile away, an isolated gas station at the corner of Cremazie & St. Lawrence Boulevards blew up with a roar. A precise ambulance interne noted that the manager when picked up had been...