Word: quails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carl Dufield's white- &orange Buddy D. which scampered "out of judgment" for all but 15 minutes of his run. After a week, all 23 of the bird dogs which their owners considered the best in the U. S. had had a chance to follow their noses for quail over the clover and corn-stubble fields of the Hobart Ames Plantation near Grand Junction, Tenn., and the judges in the 40th annual national bird-dog championship field trials, unable to name a winner, picked four for a runoff...
...member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
This was just to get the gastric juices tuned up to digest roast turkey with cranberry sauce, baked sweet potatoes, cauliflower, boiled quail on toast with cress, and lettuce...
...Andrew Jackson's lieutenant. My family table talk was entirely devoted to law and politics. Southwest Missouri was, and is yet in those parts in which the automobile road has not penetrated, a backwoods country with a characteristic backwoods culture. Turkey shoots, country school hoedowns, hunting (possum, squirrel, quail and other small game) and hay wagon parties were sports with which I was familiar...
...British Foreign Office used to handle in a way to make every loyal subject feel smug with satisfaction. In a House of Commons buzzing with expectant indignation last week Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon arose to say with an ominous restraint which would have made a Turkish Sultan quail: "The attention of the Turkish Government is being drawn to the gravity of the slaying of a British officer by Turkish soldiers...