Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When great numbers of dead & dying wild ducks were found drifting forlornly on the lakes of Alberta, the Calgary Fish & Game Association was inclined to blame alkaline water, summoned the University of Alberta's Professor William Rowan and two other naturalists to investigate. Professor Rowan & associates quickly exculpated the water. They described, in a report made public last week through a U. S. game protection association, an uglier cause-leeches. The Rowan report implied that food scarcity this year interferes with the duck's good sense: "Undoubted catfee of the enormous mortality is the hungry duck greedily attempting...
...receive him. After England's general strike of 1926 Viscount Grey helped force the split which drove his onetime associate David Lloyd George out of the Liberal Party. Eye trouble which left him almost totally blind forced him to retire from politics, devote himself to fishing and duck raising on his 2,000 Northumberland acres. He is bitterly attacked in Lloyd George's memoirs, published on the day of his death.* Died. Elinor Medill Patterson, 78, daughter of the Chicago Tribune's founder, Joseph Medill; relict of its onetime editor, Robert Wilson Patterson; aunt of its present...
States have been rezoned. The season opens at noon Sept. 21, nine days earlier than last year (except in Alaska whose open season started Sept. 1) in Wisconsin, North Dakota and northern Idaho and ends Nov. 20. Other new zones with their dates for hunting duck, geese, coot and jacksnipe are as follows...
...Manhattan Island, shoved its knife-edged nose through Hell Gate and out into Long Island Sound. By morning it was anchored in Fort Pond Bay near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain Gray: "Fish...
...darkness, with a third of its streets flooded. The staff of the Ledger Dispatch worked in hip boots to get out their paper. In Portsmouth a child was swept to death down a sewer, three wading Negroes were electrocuted by a live wire. The hamlet of Oyster, famed duck-shooting depot, was wiped out with three dead. At Richmond the annex of the Virginia Capitol was partly unroofed. The City of Norfolk, with 40 passengers, turned out of raging Chesapeake Bay, grounded in Pocomoke Sound, was "lost" for 24 hours...