Word: gulches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cantor also plays a Hollywood guide whose lifelong tragedy, cheating him of a screen career, is his resemblance to Eddie Cantor. This damaged soul lives among others of Hollywood's lumpenproletariat in Gower Gulch, a sort of surrealist Hooverville. Eventually the true Cantor is kidnapped by Gower Gulch Indians who adopt him into the tribe for the benefit of a LIFE photographer (flatteringly misrepresented by Joan Leslie). At the climax of the Monster Benefit the false Cantor impersonates the man he hates most in the world, the true Cantor. Meanwhile the true Cantor suffers as he has suffered...
King of the Gulch. Near Idaho Springs, Colo., shaggy, red-bearded Alex Anderson lived a hermit's life in a mountain cave...
...clear-eyed, a prospector's pack on his back, a notched pistol in the homemade holster on his hip-to stalk into town for grub. People left him severely alone: he had dropped a running rabbit at 100 yards with that pistol. They called him "King of the Gulch...
Rommel had pulled away almost intact, leaving behind a few Italianate droppings (the Eighth Army claimed only 8,000 prisoners, almost all Italian). The Axis armor had moved swiftly northward through the Gabes bottleneck, had settled down for at least a temporary stand at the Wadi el Akarit, a gulch about 16 miles north of Gabes...
Venturing slowly out across the lip of the gulch, we plunged downward. Dimly I saw troops hurling great bundles of fagots on to the muck and mud in the bottom of the track, trying to build a bridge for our tanks to cross. Tracers were spitting down toward them...