Word: quails
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...Clark's Quail...
...Duke & Duchess of Windsor, back in Florida to break the back of another winter, were pretty well set: the Duke applied for, and was awarded, his quail-shooting license...
...Thousands of deer, quail, ducks, wild turkeys and antelope roam what is probably the nation's biggest wildlife preserve...
...detective neighbor when a beautiful adventuress named Dorothy Lamour comes in, mistakes him for the detective and engages him to find her kidnapped uncle. From there, the action leads through various typically Chandlerian hangouts-one of those vast country mansions (big enough, as Narrator Hope puts it, to shoot quail in the foyer); a sinister sanitarium; a Washington hotel in which Hope, by now framed for murder, finds life complicated by a convention of private detectives. While Boss Menace Charles Dingle cajoles Hope in a ripe julep accent, Peter Lorre, the busiest Menace, plants knives and clues all over...
...ever taught him how to paint, but in the remaining nine years of his ailing life Morris Hirshfield turned out 72 painfully detailed paintings, mostly sexless nudes and gaudy peacocks and quail. Before he died last summer, he had been given two one-man shows. Last week, posthumously, he had a third. It gave Amateur Hirshfield the distinction, rare among painters, of having exhibited every picture he had ever painted...