Word: huntin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wasn't. As Mishkin kept telling the theater owner at the other end of the table: "When we play, we play. When we work, we work." But the man persisted: "Lee, how about us all doin' a little quail huntin'? We'll take some baby dolls along, drink a little whisky, do a little gamblin'." "No drinking," Mishkin said...
...frame topped by a theatrical thatch of silver hair, he looked like a cartoonist's Claghorn-and spent money like a Dixie Gatsby. At one celebrated Boykinalia in 1949, nearly every VIP in Washington came to Frank's house to sample a potpourri from his favorite huntin' and fishin' spots. There was salmon from Quebec, pheasant from the Dakotas, antelope from Wyoming, elk from Montana, bear from Georgia-not to mention coon, possum, squirrel and deer from his own 100,000-acre preserve in Alabama...
...Indian brave named Running Bear who loved an Indian maid named Little White Dove but was separated from her by a raging river. He plunged in, and she plunged in, and "The raging river pulled them down/ Now they'll always be together/ In that happy huntin' ground." The arrangement lags and lurches, but it has carried Singer Preston into his own happy hunting ground on the pop charts...
...task set him by the Tory Party. In 1950 Rab Butler, present Home Secretary, wrote to Macleod: "I've found that every time I've given you a harder job, you've done it better." By nature a New Tory, with no inbred love for the huntin', shootin', fishin' types of old-style Conservatives, Macleod has served brilliantly, effectively and aggressively as Minister of Health in 1952 and Minister of Labor in 1955, when he dealt so fairly and firmly with a rash of strikes that the left-wing Sunday Pictorial said that Macleod...