Word: dutchess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hyde Park, got his specially-designed Ford stuck hubdeep in Dutchess County swampland, was unstuck by Secret Service...
...pitcher-eared Galahad of New York County, District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, reminded voters he was just a country boy at heart by buying the place where he has weekended for two years - a 300-acre farm near Pawling in Dutchess County, New York. GOP-Hopeful Dewey thus became, like his 35-mile-away neighbor, Franklin Roosevelt, a titular constituent of GOP-Hopeful Hamilton Fish. Dewey farm facts: price, $30,300 ($3,000 down); a 175-year-old farmhouse, with front porch suitable for campaign purposes; two tenant houses, 70 head of cattle...
...lumberjacks and jeans, in skating skirts and golf socks, in ski pants and starched white spats, 100-odd socialites gathered last week on the rambling estate of Capitalist Oakleigh Thorne at Millbrook, N. Y. Sniffing the crisp Dutchess County air, they galumphed over the meadows, up & down hill, tripping over cornstalks, leaping heavily over brooks & briars-in pursuit of a pack of beagles who were in pursuit of a wily hare. Local farmers would never go in for such crosscountry foolishness, but if they did, they would call it a rabbit hunt. In sport parlance this mixture of old clothes...
Last week the Nickersons and their fellow Buckramites motored up to Dutchess County for the first big chase of the season: a joint meet of the Buckram Beagles and the Redington Foot Beagles owned by John K. Cowperthwaite of Far Hills, N. J. Prey of the week-end was not the mere jackrabbit or the lowly cottontail, but the rare European hare (giant of the rabbit family),† which has been known to run twelve miles in one direction before turning to circle home. In the three years that the two packs have hunted this region, bound they like bandersnatches...
...Plentiful in Dutchess County because an Austrian peasant, settling there some 50 years ago after making a fortune in the U. S., stocked his 3,000-acre estate with European hare to make it seem more like home...