Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picnicking with my wife and 16-year-old son on Chatham Island. I observed a heavy wash coming down the Gulf [of Georgia] from the north. I thought at first it was just a tide rip. Then I was amazed to see huge coils come out of the top of the water like a snake. . . . The total length of these coils must have been at least 80 ft. and they were five feet thick, I should think. They came twisting out of the water so high that I could see light under them...
...fated ministry swiftly dispatched ambassadors to treat with the philosopher. Jay arrived, and John Adams, and from London came Richard Oswald, a merchant whom Shelbourne considered sufficiently canny to deal successfully with the Yankees. The stage was set for great deeds. For reasons personal or traditional the gulf between Dr. Franklin, Mr. Adams, and Mr. Jay was equal to that between Jay the Huguenot and le Comte de Vergennes, French foreign minister, or between de Vergennes and Charles James Fox. To quote an historian, "Adams thought Franklin was an atheist of no morality, and Franklin thought that Adams...
...Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with him on a Gulf Refining Co. program...
...James need display no false modesty; he has not failed. A tall striding man in mussed uniform and muddy boots" dominates these four hundred odd pages. Across the gulf of a century he has been transplanted from Tennessee to typemetal. And for the first time he thrives again, bawling orders to John Coffee, fidus Achates; shaking his flat under the brandy noses of a country jury; writing Rachel "Kiss my two sons," and in the next breath ordering the execution of Ambrister...
...shone through, the rain ceased. There was an ominous silence. Moonlight lay yellow on the rain-soaked trees, rippled and rolled over the cotton fields like a saffron wave as the wind veered and puffed unsteadily. Then the hurricane struck. A shrieking wall of air came out of the Gulf, driving the sea before it. With savage fury it seized the town of Brownsville, shook it to pieces, dumped dozens of wrecked houses into the rising sea-tide. It lifted the roofs off buildings in inland towns, tore out bridges and highways, rolled abandoned automobiles over & over like dice...