Word: quails
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...
...Starling had been out quail-shooting and brought back several birds. The President, in starched collar, yellow necktie, leather waistcoat, green mackinaw coat, riding trousers, laced boots and ten-gallon hat, motored ten miles to a backwoods cabin where a Dr. W. B. Hodge, one Clyde Moorehead and one Wirt Hatcher, practiced gunners, awaited him with four setter dogs. The President patted the dogs, loaded his gun, marched into the scrub-oak and broom-sage. Hosts, guides and detectives followed, gunless...
...went a covey of quail, flushed "wild" by the too-eager dogs. The President raised his gun but did not fire. Soon Flossie, smartest of the setters, whipped into a point. The President walked up and-blam-missed the single bird that whirred away. There were four more points, four more blams. Not a feather was cut. The President went home "skunked." Col. Starling suggested that the trouble was the full-choke bore of the Presidential gun, patterned for trapshooting rather than live game. From the way he shrugged and scowled, it seemed the President blamed his bulky green mackinaw...
Parched and stinking, Bahrein Island barely breaks the surface of the Persian Gulf. European pates soon addle, uninsulated from its vicious sun. Before its troughs of rotting oysters, queasy European nostrils quail. Impervious to sun and stink, Arab traders hunker down, paddle the bubbling compost, comb it with their fingers...
...Quail are good to eat on toast, their little paws pointing like small handles over their plump stomachs. They should be hunted in the south and will be this year by Gen. John J. Pershing, Vice President Dawes, and perhaps Irvin S. Cobb. President Coolidge at this moment has a special setter in training, for what purpose no one knows, but possibly for quail hunting...