Word: gulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gull...
...Long Island Sound, off Mayville, L. I., Henry Pester was fishing. A sea gull frisked greedily about his catch. He kept chasing it away. The gull darted at the water, caught a 1-lb. weakfish, dropped it squarely in Mr. Fester's lap, flew away...
...discover that you and your acquaintance are both devoted readers of the works of the late Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, that you have, both covered the 350-odd short stories, the six full-length plays. Of the six, four have been produced in Manhattan since autumn: The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, and, last week, Uncle Vanya. Presented with artistic piety by Producer Jed Harris, Uncle Vanya was ecstatically received by confirmed Chekhovians. In addition, cinemagoers had the opportunity of beholding birdlike Cinemactress Lillian Gish in the flesh...
...great winds that stormed the Western coast of Europe last autumn, this bird, a black-headed European gull, four times as small as a herring gull, had been carried far out into the sea. Six weeks ago Ludlow Griscom of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and S. Gilbert Emilio of the Peabody Museum in Salem saw the black-headed gull in a flock of Bonaparte gulls flying, diving, settling on rocks in the harbor of Newburyport, Mass. They knew that black-headed gulls breed in Europe from England to Turkestan ; that in the winter, they fly as far east...
...larger family than many a paterfamilias, and they did their best to eat him out of house and home. When critics began to take his funny stories seriously, no one was more amused and surprised than Dr. Chekhov. When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow Art Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote...