Word: deering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smart varmint, but I can't share the professor's love for him. The Western ranges have to carry several million head of cattle and sheep as well as antelope, deer and elk. We simply don't have enough grass to produce meat for America, ERP, and the coyotes that range all over the West . . . J. McK. PARDEE Secretary...
...placid Queen Anne got tired of bouncing in a carriage over Britain's heaths watching the gentlemen of her court chase deer. She established the Ascot racecourse so that she could sit in one place and watch the gentlemen race their horses around. In the 238 years since then (right up into last week), interesting occurrences have taken place at Ascot...
Aside from the novelty of watching Macready drop a couple of men in their tracks like deer in Sherwood Forest, Allegro is notable for only one thing. It was directed by Ted Tetzlaff, whose sensitive work in a current minor thriller called The Window entitles him to something better than such conveyor-belt assignments...
...monkeys and penguins. After World War I, in which he served as a flyer, Cliff Mooers went into the oil business, made some fortunate strikes and became president of the Shasta Oil Co. That gave him a chance to do something else he wanted to do: he established a deer sanctuary on his Texas ranch where he ran everything from mule deer to rare muntjac barking-deer imported from India...
What made some people unhappy about his new show was that much of it bristled with sordid details (e.g., a couple embracing in a child's bed, under a stuffed deer's head), and that the stories Koerner told were unrelievedly grim. In one painting (The Tie) an ugly, starkly naked young couple stood back to back in a puddle, holding hands as if against their will, staring dazedly into the encroaching darkness. Draped around the husband's weary neck hung a tie decorated with a pin-up girl. "Don't think I am making...