Word: ducks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upland bird hunting will be over when the sun sets today; those wanting to hunt birds will have to transfer their attention to the duck marshes. Duck hunting so far this year has been excellent. Hunters report heavy flights along the South Shore Marshes of Plymouth County and in the marshes around the Parker River Refuge south of Newbnryport. Outside the state, good duck hunting is to be found along the Maine coast and in the Narragansett Bay area...
Hunting in Massachusetts requires either a $3.25 resident license or a $15.25 non-resident license. Six months residence is required for the former license. For duck hunting, an additional $2.00 federal stamp is needed...
...easy. The kid can twirl his six guns like a vaudeville juggler, but when it comes to shooting, he could hardly hit Texas if he were standing in Fort Worth. Worse yet, he has not learned that the best way to handle a fight is generally to duck...
...young lady, a gawky girl of 13, was a distant cousin whose father had recently become King Emperor. A devastatingly handsome young man of 17, Philip could not be expected to show any great interest in her as a woman, but he could scarcely duck entertaining her. As an officer and a gentleman, he did his best to please by leaping lithely over a tennis net ("How good he is. Crawfie. How high he can jump!" cried Lilibet to her governess), and spicing the conversation on the royal yacht with salty -though not too salty-anecdotes. Elizabeth was entranced...
Tony and about half the guests at Le Condor piled into their cars and roared off to see the sentence passed out. After first making sure that a press photographer was on hand, Tony was ducked, one girl jumped in all by herself, and everyone had a simply hilarious time until the police arrived and the deliquescent juveniles retreated to Le Condor for a nightcap. Tony promised that more was to come. "Everything has been as dead as a duck while I've been away," said he, "but that's all over...