Word: pheasants
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 58, socialite farmer and aviator, grandson of Philadelphia's late merchant John Wanamaker, onetime husband of the present Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt; of an abdominal wound received when his shotgun accidentally fired while he was climbing a fence after a pheasant on his 94-acre Saracen Farm; near Doylestown, Pa. At a party last June in Stamford, Conn, he was burned about both eyes when he set off a skyrocket to announce his arrival...
...Richard Pheasant of Winthrop was the last man to register...
...insurance companies. An exceedingly rich and somewhat mysterious Briton, Mr. Fortington has been in the U. S. since 1920. He has a home in England, an apartment in Manhattan and a 1,400-acre estate in Pawling, N. Y., where he has the biggest apple orchard and the finest pheasant preserve in that part of the State. Whenever the weather permits he goes to work by way of the Newark Airport in one of his three planes. He flies a little himself, though his personal pilot for years was the late Jimmy Collins. He owns a private salmon river...
...sturdiest political wheelhorses-Jack Garner, Joe Robinson, Pat Harrison, Joe Byrns, Jim Farley. After a lunch of venison steak the party retired to the sun-sparkling private lake, where the President reeled in the day's best catch- ten trout, the legal limit. Followed a dinner of broiled pheasant, after which chairs were drawn about a crackling fire and six professional politicos put heads together to scheme their way out of the Bonus...
...original report, which they published in the Lancet, Drs. Maile & Scott stated that it requires six hours to digest a mixed meal of eggs, toast, cream and coffee. A supper of cold pheasant, potatoes, chutney, pudding, jelly, beer and coffee stayed in the stomach about 47 hours. But 3½to 4 hours usually suffice to digest the ordinary meal. A headache, an emotional upset or a high ratio of fatty foods delay digestion...