Word: moores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Scotland, where the sport is best organized, has some 3,000 heather-covered, grouse-infested moors for rent. In prosperous years the gross income from rents has run to $7,500,000. Payments to lodge keepers, beaters and handy men total about the same. An average sized moor costs a hunter all told about $5,000 a month for the season. That is, in Scotland. If he merely wants grouse and is willing to forego social eéclat, he may go on to the Orkneys. There he may rent a stand for as little as $300 cash...
...lack of bags to report last week, newsgatherers reported on field costumes. Gillies, who could get no work from the rich visitors, and moor owners, who could get no renters, went grousing on their own. Grouse they killed were selling last week in Edinburgh at $5 per brace, in Glasgow at $7.50. Those were remarkably low prices for early in the season. Late in November, prices come down. It is then, just before the grouse season closes and after the rich renters have killed the female and young grouse, and gone away, that the patient Scotsmen go afield. They know...
...Samuel Moor Shoemaker Jr., rector of Calvary Church, one of Princeton's first Buchmanites, declared: "Frank Buchman . . . did more than any other man to bring me to Christ...
...long he walked or on what paths he trod will never be known; for he was deep in thought. At long last he looked up to see before him two graceful Spanish buildings. He is not quite sure about the Spanish part, but the structures stood on a moor anyway. Over the front door of one was a stork medallion; that would be the "Lying In" hospital Over the front door of the other dangled a beer bottle from the window above; that would be the medical school...
When the wind whistles cold on the moor of a night...