Word: fowling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seagull or two, poised over the ridged seas that beleaguer Scotland, were puzzled last week by a pair of inexplicable water-fowl-larger, whiter, sleeker than they-which never rose into the air, but skirted the wavetops, their wings petitioning the wind. Through a calm off Bogany Land, round a buoy at Kerry Croy, on the tumbled reach to Blackhouse, one of these birds was always in front of the other. That one was the Lanai, U. S. six-metre boat, sailed by Sherman Hoyt, famed Long Island yachtsman...
...Winsted, Conn., famed as a home of strange events, one Charles Alling beheld a large crane caught by the foot in a wire fence, went to save the pitiable fowl. The crane drove his beak into Alling's left eye, ", permanently blinded...
...China, the way leads to Pekin, Nankau Pass, the Old Wall of China, Shanghai, Hongkong, and Canton. Besides wild fowl shooting, there will also be opportunity to bag cave tigers. The upper end of the Malay peninsula will be negotiated by elephant-back. In Burmah, Dr. Smith will lead the way from Rangoon up the Irawaddy river to Mandalay, and thence to India, where he will visit Calcutta, Darjeeling, Benares, Delhi, Jaipur, Anidapur, Bombay and Madras. There will be tiger and wild cattle shooting. Through Ceylon, Singapore, and Java, the party will reach the South Seas where several islands will...
...moon of April was unable to say how this lure was going to succeed, but noted that the patient fowl, still laboring over the crossword puzzle books, was beginning to fly unmistakable signals of fatigue. Some bookstores reported their crossword sales to be one-fifth to one-tenth what they were last fall. Others reported the puzzle books to have continued their bestsellers for March, but expected them to fall to eighth or tenth this month...
...faithful fowl tiring beneath the April moon...