Word: quailing
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Mercy, Truth & 2,500 Quail. William C. Browning of Browning, King & Co. said: "In nearly 50 years of business experience I don't believe I ever saw a time when prospects were so bright." In parallel vein, the Rev. Michael J. Lavelle preached at St. Patrick's upon the text: "Lord Thou hast blest Thy land: Thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob . . . Mercy and truth have met . . . justice and peace have kissed. Truth is sprung out of the earth: and justice hath looked down from heaven...
Certainly there was no question of barehanded bear killing at the New York Athletic Club, whose 2,000 members and guests that afternoon consumed 2,500 quail, 600 partridges, several hundred grouse. The chef had also reconstructed Manila-in sugar-complete with Cavite Fort and Dewey's fleet. If, later in the evening, any of the guests "recited their verses" it was not recorded...
...Chase. In Iowa, investigation showed why an Anamosa-Clinton branch line freight train had been consistently running late: its crew had taken to stopping in the country to pot rabbits and quail...
...studio audience recoiled under a shower of dried beans and pin feathers; then a covey of dead quail and a stuffed cow flopped down onto the stage. There were shotgun blasts, scampering midgets, severed arms, proscenium-climbing cupids and baboons in full cry. Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson, the rowdiest, slap-happiest zanies in show business, had moved into Milton Berle's time spot (Tues. 8 p.m. E.D.T., NBC TV) with their first television show...
...George Humphrey rules so huge and scattered an empire that he sometimes travels 100,000 miles a year keeping tabs on it. Yet he still finds time to hunt foxes from his rambling estate at Kirtland, near Cleveland, and to hunt quail on his game preserve at Thomasville, Ga. Publicity-shy, he stays backstage so much that few fellow Clevelanders know him well or even realize how big a tycoon...