Word: quailed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thousands of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys and antelope roam what is probably the nation's biggest wildlife preserve...
...detective neighbor when a beautiful adventuress named Dorothy Lamour comes in, mistakes him for the detective and engages him to find her kidnapped uncle. From there, the action leads through various typically Chandlerian hangouts-one of those vast country mansions (big enough, as Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over...
...ever taught him how to paint, but in the remaining nine years of his ailing life Morris Hirshfield turned out 72 painfully detailed paintings, mostly sexless nudes and gaudy peacocks and quail. Before he died last summer, he had been given two one-man shows. Last week, posthumously, he had a third. It gave Amateur Hirshfield the distinction, rare among painters, of having exhibited every picture he had ever painted...
...from the Boiling Pot. While all these potential rewards and troubles boiled furiously, Bob Young spent most of last week in the piny woods of northern Florida, expertly banging away at quail. He was the guest of Mrs. George F. Baker Jr. on her 13,000-acre Horseshoe Plantation. The Baker family has been associated with the House of Morgan for several decades, but Young is often the best of social friends with his business enemies. His hunting companions at the Baker estate were the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with whom Young and his wife are on first-name terms...
...quail and Florida were not Bob Young's whole concern last week. As usual, he kept in daily communication with his New York office by telephone. Says he: "If I didn't keep my guard up all the time, those goddamned bankers would scalp me in a minute." (His habit of pronouncing "goddamned bankers" as if it were one word is so familiar to his banking friends that they no longer feel sworn...