Word: gulch
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...became a printer's devil, and in his spare time was a publicity man for Mack Sennett. He worked his way into cartooning on the sports page of Hearst's San Francisco Bulletin. William R. Hearst himself spotted his drawings of an improbable community Hatlo called "Swineskin Gulch," and ordered Bulletin editors to use more Hatlo cartoons. In 1928 he tried his first "They'll Do It Every Time," was so flooded with letters from readers suggesting ideas that he has drawn it ever since. By 1943, Trem-blechin's dreadful little daughter Iodine had become...
Even back in West Virginia, where the family lived before coming to Indiana, says his mother, "everybody knowed he was a climber. He'd worry the life out of me goin' up on to some knoll and then riding a sapling down into the gulch." Reflecting on this one afternoon last week, while munching on a jelly sandwich Roger felt a little dissatisfied with himself. School had been out a week and the weather was warm, but he still hadn't "worked up some of his big ideas...
...Davos, scene of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, where Dave had learned his skiing as a youngster. Their honeymoon included a trip West last summer, where Andy stayed in ski shape by heaving huge grain sacks, breaking a mare, and cooking chow for all hands at a Porcupine Gulch (Wyo.) ranch. Andy's admiring father-in-law, Laudy Lawrence, retired European manager for MGM, calls her a "regular hillbilly...
...brink of a cliff in an almost uninhabited wilderness; but from the ground it looks like a suburban shopping center that has grown too fast. No one would guess from looking at the faces of its 12,500 inhabitants that in the forbidden "technical area" across a deep gulch, the most fearful weapons in the world are being designed...
...thrillers, held slack-jawed and limp before the endless, banal assault on ear and eye and mind. When his characters are caught with their sets off, they exhibit every nuance of the Walter Mitty syndrome: grandmothers speak to one another with the accents of private eyes; moppets dry-gulch their parents from behind the furniture; housewives confront "their startled husbands with all the teary grandeur of John's Other Wife...