Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WING SHOTS-Albert Dixon Simmons-Deny dale ($15). Born a Canadian, and a bird lover since his tenth year, Albert Simmons at 44 has perfected a technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will...
...BISHOP'S BIRDS -Richard E. Bishop J. B. Lippincott ($15). Everyone who shoots wildfowl legally this year will carry in his gunning coat an etching by Artist Bishop-the three wild geese on the Federal "duck stamp," without which no State hunting license is complete. A tiny fraction of this public will drink their after-shooting toddies out of glasses expensively decorated by Bishop's enamel bird silhouets. In this book are found reproductions of 73 of Artist Bishop's best etchings...
Last week the U. S. Biological Survey proved its impartial vigilance when Motorman Walter P. Chrysler, good New Dealer, was summoned to appear in Baltimore's Federal district court, answer charges of misbehavior on his Eastern Shore estate last duck-hunting season. The triple-barreled charge: 1) failure to plug his repeating shotgun to three-shell capacity; 2) failure to have a Federal stamp on his hunting license; 3) shooting over a baited area. Maximum penalty on each count: $500 fine, six months' imprisonment...
Into a San Francisco court John L. Green was haled for being drunk in a public place and cruel to an animal, his pet duck "Amos" with whom he had spent an hilarious Saturday night. Of Amos, the spokesman for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals reported : "He was probably the drunkest duck I ever saw. He would stand up on the bar and quaff a foaming beaker and then go bouncing . . . into a ground loop, skid off the bar, and tailspin to the floor." Protested Owner Green: "I'm training this little duck...
Booked for a radio interview along with Cinemartist Walt Disney and a young actor playing Donald Duck, Soprano Grace Moore (One Night of Love, The King Steps Out) stormed about the studio until the duck's part was eliminated. Squealed she: "I will not sing with livestock...