Word: purdey
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...intelligence devoid of moral character and respect for life, and declared it a source of the supreme dehumanization of fascism. His warnings evidently wore off rather quickly. The pitiless cynicism of the "Love Story" chorus was a macabre and frightening celebration of inhumanity, and it was a disgrace. Jedediah Purdey...
...peculiar achievement of Sir Anthony van Dyck was to have invented the English gentleman-not the mild, knobbly, pink creature one sees beneath its bowler in the street, but the now vanishing archetype of aristocracy, calm and straight as a Purdey gun barrel, with the look of arrogant security guaranteed to paralyze all lesser breeds from Calais to Peshawar. This invention began in 1632, when Van Dyck, an ex-assistant of the greatest court painter of his age, Peter Paul Rubens, arrived in London. It ended with his death at the age of 42, in 1641. In between came seven...
...knickerbockers), heavy woolen socks, cleated gum boots, a Husky weatherproofed coat and a snug tweed cap. The sportsman also needs evening clothes and funds for the native libation. And the gun must have his guns, preferably a pair of 12-gauge double-barreled sidelock ejectors from London's Purdey James & Sons or Holland & Holland. A shotgun costs as much as $22,500; gunsmiths report waiting lists of up to four years for their matchless weapons. Over most of the 3 million arid Highland acres, where Lagopus scoticus breeds and feeds, the birds are the only source of income...
This marked the second time in as many weeks that Purdey has been pryed from his position and plunked in the briney...
Stealing away from the Christmas Eve hubbub to bag a few partridges on the grounds of Madrid's El Pardo palace, Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, 69, had fired off some 40 shots when the left barrel of his British Purdey suddenly exploded. "It is a matter of little importance," shrugged the icy-veined old soldier, surveying his bleeding left hand. "Give me a handkerchief to tie it up." The Caudillo seemed unfazed by the fact that had he been sighting along the horizon instead of upward over his head, the explosion might well have caught...