Word: quailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...settle a long-standing controversy between fox hunters and quail hunters (who claimed that foxes kill & eat game birds) the Virginia Commission of Game & Inland Fisheries last winter announced that it would examine the stomachs of 500 foxes, settle once & for all the question of just what a fox does eat (TIME, Jan. 4). Last week the Commission announced the results of its examination of the first 50 stomachs inspected, all from Virginia foxes killed last winter. Items...
...thousands of a dark wedge-tailed Shearwater just about to commence breeding and smaller numbers of a small white-bellied one, which we learned later are described as local races. . . The land birds are very few, one--a little scrub wren described by Alexander in 1922; another the little quail also a topotypical speciman. There is an abundance of small Wallaby here, an island race of Macropus eugenii. . . Our two weeks passed very quickly and pleasantly, though water was very scarce and we were limited to about two cups a day, which is a bit thin when one is ranging...
...quail shooting season in Alabama lasts from Nov. 20 to Feb. 20. Editors and Negroes are shot all year round...
...Stevens is 35, went from the University of North Carolina to War as a second lieutenant in a machine-gun unit. He is the youngest leader in Legion history. Like retiring Commander O'Neil, he is a graduate of Harvard Law School. At Warsaw he shoots ducks and quail in the autumn, fishes in the summer, sings in the Episcopal choir, practices law. The Stevens have a small son. Curly-headed Commander Stevens distinguished himself by energetic leadership of his State's department. Elected unanimously, he pledged to help the organization's sick, needy, disabled and orphaned...
Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes...