Word: quail
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ever to make the enemy quail...
...Ganson '30, Carleton Green '30, D. S. Gruber '29, J. F. Harding '30, F. F. Hart '30, E. Huberman '29, J. K. Hurd '30, R. H. Jones '30, F. I. Kogos '29, J. L. McNamara '31, H. G. Meyer '30, Carl Miller '29, J. Moskovitz 1G.B., R. F. Quail '30, H. J. Slaughter '29, W. M. Smart Jr. '30, J. L. Ware '30, Norman Winer '29, H. A. Wolff '29, A. Wolper...
...Quail-shooting in Virginia . . . Turkey-shooting in Georgia . . . and then one day he pressed a White House button and scampered away, chuckling boyishly at the seriousness of secret service men. It is not impossible that Calvin Coolidge gave the electric hobbyhorse a tickle in the ribs just before it was packed up and shipped to Northampton, Mass...
...pheasants and wild turkeys slain last week by President Coolidge at Sapeloe (see page 9) were a luxurious but not misleading sample of what the Southeast offers to gunners. Almost anywhere from Virginia to mid-Florida, quail abound. Wild-fowling in the Carolinas-duck, geese, brant-is a sport of moderate temperatures, unlike the cold-blown shooting of northern rivers and bays. When Mr. Hoover visits Mr. Penney at Belle Isle shortly, accounts of Southeastern fishing will doubtless go forth, though the tarpon, greatest of Southeastern game-fish, is caught off Florida's west coast...
...McAlpins, Rockefellers, Drexels, Fords, Carnegies, du Ponts, et al.) have developed Jekyl, St. Simon's and other Golden Islands.* He built a mansion Spanish in style, Southern in rambling scope. He cut bridle paths and motor roads and stocked his forest with pheasants, peacocks, wild turkeys, deer.. Quail, 'possum and waterfowl were there in natural abundance. Through no imaginable chance should the President be "skunked" again on his next shooting foray if he makes it on Sapeloe. Mrs. Coolidge, who likes swimming, will doubtless try the mansion's blue-tiled, glass-domed swimming pool...