Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many years a State bird observer and was one of the first sportsmen to recognize the possibilities of the Cape for duck shooting, doing much to popularize the sport around Boston. In his younger days he was well known for his painting of wild life and especially noted for his pictures of water fowl both of which have been on exhibition in many places in the last 30 years...
...were divided up?some to Montreal and Quebec, some to the Indian villages. When Mrs. Lygon had to leave her husband lying at the point of death, she gave up, let herself fall in love with a young Frenchman. The parson's son took to Indian life like a duck to water. Others of the captives became acclimatized in their degrees. But the stout-hearted minority, too Protestant to succumb to death, Catholicism or Frenchified ways, got their ransom or their freedom one way or another, plodded home to make a new palisade for Redfield, build up again their charred...
...nothing so much as a Yale Bowl demonstration. When he tried to direct the audience's enthusiasm to the orchestra, he discovered that the players to a man had put down their instruments, were standing and applauding him. To stop the ovation he had to disperse the orchestra, duck away to his dressing room...
...inlet of the Potomac River opposite Washington, Raymond Ickes, son of the Secretary of the Interior, worked as foreman on a CCC project improving a wild duck pond...
Last week Secretary Wallace took another step toward duck conservation when he indicated that he would approve the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board's recommendations for this year's hunting season. Most important duck-saving clauses: 1) Prohibition of baiting of ducks in the vicinity of shooting stands. 2) A 30-day shooting season (half that of last year) for each state, to fall between...