Word: quailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over. Declared he: "If I do it again I'll get a couple of old, vicious ones. I'm the sort of a fellow that likes to do a thing, once he sets his mind to it." Next day he was reported off on a "quail hunt," taking with him two lion cubs younger than the first pair...
...aboard, a mild-faced, sandy-haired little man. Before the bus reached Washington, a 20-mi. trip, Dr. Baker alighted. Nearby was a funpark where W. &. J. students take their pleasure; some four or five miles away were the trees and towers of the college. Before Dr. Baker stood "Quail Hill," an old, boarded-up Georgian house whose owners used to entertain him and his wife. Dusk fell. Presently the weary, 66-year-old pedagog stumbled, fell by a stream near the highway. In the night a wind & rain storm beat down on "Quail Hill...
...schools. He never recovered completely from the prostate operation. Friends noticed that Dr. Baker grew increasingly depressed Last week he seemed drawn back to Washington. Pittsburgh police hunted for a day in Highland Park, where Dr. Baker had said he was going to stroll. But it was at "Quail Hill," the morning after the storm, that a pipe-line walker named Steve Sento found the sodden body, twelve-hours dead, pistol in hand and a bullet in the head...
...that Brasher has heId faithfully to the probable background and the actual bird, rarely permitting himself a flourish. Not a romantic naturalist, he has always gone straight to the nearest example of the bird he wanted. He sketched the golden eagle in the New York Zoological Garden, the valley quail in the Pittsburgh Zoo. When he painted the final pictures, he verified his colors from the bird skin collection of Dr. Jonathan Dwight in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. The episode of the pair of golden eagles chasing the redhead ducks (see cut} was reported...
...only one fox stomach were found quail remains; small, nongame birds were in only six. The Bureau is now examining the stomachs of 50 foxes killed in the spring, paying $1 per stomach. Virginia Negroes, wise as Uncle Remus, have always known that of all foods Brer Fox prefers Brer Rabbit...