Word: gulled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...respect at his death was tremendous for a private citizen. He wrote fluently, often beautifully, never let the weight of his thought conquer his fondness of imagery. ''The ox of today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...Carl Y. Matthews of Cleveland used to bathe in Gull Pond, a saltwater inlet near Greenport, L. I. He took his daughter, Irene, 7, all the way from Cleveland not only to visit the scenes of his childhood but to bathe in Gull Pond. He, clothed, stood on the beach and watched her. She waded out until the water was splashing about her middle...
Suddenly Carl Y. Matthews saw something else-a dark triangular fin slicing through the water, going toward his daughter. He knew what it belonged to, though never had he heard of a shark in Gull Pond. Quickly seizing a rusty iron bar that was lying on the beach, Carl Y. Matthews interposed himself between the fish and its prey, met its rush, smashed it on the head, dragged it ashore, killed it. It was a blue shark 6 ft. 7 in. long...
With such deliberate avoidance of publicity he has produced a cascade of philanthropies this year, which probably (it is impossible to calculate) surpasses the volume of Brother John Harvey's. To Michigan State College of Agriculture & Applied Science he gave his experimental farm near Gull Lake, Mich., and his wild life sanctuary at Wintergreen Lake, Mich. He endowed both for 999 years...
...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...