Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...until he found a rabbit hole. Noting fresh tracks, he solemnly commented: "Das ist gut." From a leather pouch on his hip he brought out a sleek, sausage-shaped ferret named Mookie. The three tiny bells on his neck tinkling, Mookie was launched down the rabbit hole. The Jagermeister (hunt master) watched intently as Mookie's master raised his gauntleted left arm and spoke soothingly to the malevolent-looking hawk tethered to his wrist. "Steady, Diana. Steady, pretty girl," whispered the hunter. Diana's pale yellow eyes glared balefully at her master...
...Flight's the Thing. More than 100 falconers (a generic term applied to all those who hunt with birds) from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain had entered the trials. They brought birds of half a dozen varieties, ranging from peregrines, which dive at pheasant and pigeons at speeds as high as 200 m.p.h., to a somewhat elderly eagle, especially trained (for Hermann Goring) as a fox killer...
Communism at Home: After saying early in the campaign that the hunt for Communists was a hunt for "phantoms," and that U.S. Communists "aren't, on the whole, very important," he said that "as far as I'm concerned this fight will be continued until the Communist conspiracy in our land is smashed beyond repair," and that the job of tracking them down should be turned over to the FBI. "Our police work is aimed at a conspiracy, and not ideas or opinion. Our country was built on unpopular ideas, on unorthodox opinions. My definition of a free...
Hurricane Smith (Nat Holt; Paramount) is a flurry of low melodrama on the high seas. Included in the excitement: pirates taking over a slave ship, a battle between the ship's officers and the shanghaied crew, a hunt for buried treasure in the South Seas, a fight between a shark and Hurricane Smith (John Ireland). Also aboard is an exotic half-Polynesian girl (Yvonne de Carlo) who does a native love dance on the deck of the pirate ship dressed in the sketchiest of sarongs...
...that Arbiter Vanderbilt has been stingy with advice for those who may have to hold a hunt breakfast, staff a 100-room mansion, or participate in an evening horse show (a dinner jacket is often worn with evening trousers cut slightly narrow in the leg with elastic straps under the insteps). But in Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette (Doubleday; plain $5, indexed $5.75), a 700-page tome, the author not only writes with an un-verbenaed frankness but has pushed the horizon of social propriety out to include such goings-on as divorce proceedings, the entertainment...