Word: pheasants
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...Paddy") Clarke's saloon at 55th Street, enlivened by the stuffed figure of the original four-legged Paddy, who used to deliver buckets of beer to regular patrons; Tim Costello's, jampacked with newspapermen, its walls decorated with original Thurber drawings; the fabulously expensive Chambord (pompano and pheasant...
...Numbers. In West Caldwell, N.J., Hunter James Smith shot a pheasant that bore the State Fish & Game Society tag number 33536, a little later shot No. 33537, two days later shot...
Farther north, the biggest and noisiest hunting show the U.S. had ever known was already well under way. There were few pheasant, practically no ruffed grouse, few duck, but the guns roared anyhow. On Chesapeake Bay, duck hunters cussed the "bluebird"weather -balmy days when the redhead and canvasback like to sit on the water, and the men in the blinds see few duck overhead. In Washington, an unseasonable freeze-up sent birds hightailing south through the state in two days. But there were plenty of white-tailed deer, plenty of ammunition, and plenty of hunters (some ten million...
...weather fine, the weeklies' readers also spent a lot of time just enjoying themselves. Innumerable families visited relatives in Oklahoma City, Kalispell, Mont. or St. Joseph, Mo. Ladies Aid societies, Jolly Hour Clubs, bridge and church groups met and "partook of bounteous refreshments." There was pheasant hunting on the fields of the Middle West. Thousands of high-school football teams "clashed at the local gridiron." There were Halloween parties, golden weddings, marriages, christenings...
...Class of 1940: James Richard Edward Pheasant...