Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took to the woods, the marshes and the prairies for their fall shooting. From Cape Cod to the Sierras, most of them were after rabbits. Many had their minds on quail, pheasant, grouse, squirrel, deer. But the most excited U. S. gunners last week were the 1,000,000 duck shooters looking forward to their rendezvous with canvasbacks, mallards, black ducks, pintails...
This year, winging south from Canada, come the heaviest flights of wild duck in ten years-20% more than last year, thanks to providential June rains in the Canadian breeding grounds and the efforts of Ducks Unlimited, a popular-subscription organization that has spent a quarter of a million dollars in the past two years restoring duck-nesting marshes in Canada...
Around whiskey bottles, wherever duck shooters gathered at dusk last week† shop talk was the same. Oldsters held forth about the good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before...
...this clearer than in the way the U. S. used its leisure. Citizens bought more tennis racquets, handballs, oil paints, golf balls, shot guns, archery sets, ping pong tables, croquet sets, duck decoys, fishing tackle, riding boots, bathing suits, bicycles, travel books, pianos, phonograph records, violins, skis, garden seed, sailboats-a vast index of their tastes and needs, as fundamental to the U. S. temperament as the commercialism generally applied to it. If the iron ore of the Mesabi made it inevitable that there should be a vast steel industry in the U. S., the first glimpse of the Rockies...
...born a duck, lived-yes, and died a duck...