Word: deering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good fare for children is the simple Blackfoot fable Why People Die Forever ("so that we shall be sorry for each other"), the Confucianist fable With Deer's Milk He Supplied His Parents. By & large Editor Smith leaves out the sort of stories that Sunday-school teachers rely on. Her Old Testament anthology omits the tales of Joshua, Gideon, Samson and Daniel in favor of the minor prophets Amos, Hosea and Micah...
Author Rich lives in the wilds with Husband Ralph, Son Rufus and various dogs, skunks, neighbors. She bathes in a washtub placed near the kitchen stove. She uses ("supreme test of fortitude") an outhouse, which in winter can be reached only through knee-deep snow. "Bear and deer and wildcat tracks are all in the day's walk, while a stray human bootprint throws us into a dither...
...living the Riches write articles, stories, guide city "sports," haul anything from logs and boats to litters of pigs and Camp Fire Girls. In December they stock up for winter from their nearest A. & P.-40 miles away. Pork loin and whole deer swing frozen from ceiling hooks in the sheds...
Gravely ill at a hospital in Copenhagen lay 72-year-old King Christian X of Denmark, thrown from his horse during his regular morning ride (TIME, Oct. 26). Back from a hunting trip in Scotland, 16-year-old Princess Elizabeth gleefully reported she had bagged three deer in one day's stalking. Mother and father received a visitor...
...game hunters had better luck last week. Many areas in Western States are overrun with deer and elk. Game commissions, plainly worried about mounting damages to ranchers for destroyed haystacks, are talking about an added open season, an all-doe season or just plain market-hunting...