Word: quailing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Quail Stuffers. To fatten quail for market, Italian and Polish gaveurs (bird stuffers) work in Paris market-hall cellars, chewing up grain and fruit into a pap which they let the quail eat from their mouths. The pecking quail abrade the gaveurs' lips, noses, chins. The peckmarks become infected, ulcerated; the gaveurs are miserable, sometimes die. ... So reported the Journal of the American Medical Association, ever on the alert for new occupational diseases...
...just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...
...Pronounced "Quail...
...victory. British sportsmen, dismayed by the fate of Eastcott, more anxious than cocky U. S. prognosticators, awaited news of the encounter of Roark and Hitchcock in the final chukkers of the Open Championship. Despite his successive defeats, friends of Soldier-Poloist Tremayne insist that he is not one to quail before enemy fire; that he will next year return to competition...
...banana or flick ashes from a cigaret. At 50 to 150 feet, aiming at 2-in. blocks bobbing in water, he has scored eight hits to seven by a crack rifle shot. With both bait-and fly-casting tackle he has caught muskrats, beavers, porcupines, coons, gophers, gulls, woodpeckers, quail, loons, bitterns, mud-hens. Because game-fish judge bait principally by sight rather than smell, he has cast an onion and caught a fish. He has caught bass with carrots, parsnips, beets, frankfurters, potatoes, corn-on-cob, string beans, cherries...