Word: gulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prayed for food." The Captain glanced at the newsmen, resumed in a low, slow voice: "If it wasn't for the fact I had seven witnesses, I wouldn't dare tell this story because it seems so fantastic. But within an hour after prayer meeting a sea gull came in and landed on my head." They ate the gull raw, used its innards for bait. They caught two fish, ate them...
Russian Revolution. With his four turn-of-the-century plays-The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard-Anton Chekhov, a tuberculous Russian doctor, quietly effected a revolution in the theater. Tossing out the well-made play with a cast-iron plot, he substituted a fluid, unemphatic, uneventful picture of life-the life of a fiberless leisure-class Russian society...
...found owl, gull, squirrel, seal, walrus, whale, caribou...
...local dogs ate their new, metal-saving, plastic license tags. In Washington, the Office of Defense Transportation officially ruled that oysters are not farm products. In Boston, Bartender Vito Lorizio heard an impatient thumping on the bar behind him, snapped, "Take your time," turned to find a sea gull perched there, waiting. In Philadelphia, a homing pigeon turned up from Trenton, only 30 miles away, refused to go home...
Robert Nathan's last novel, They Went On Together, dealt with refugees being machine-gunned in one of those nameless countries which are Novelist Nathan's today's special. The Sea-Gull Cry is less portentous. A blonde young Polish countess is living in an abandoned scow on Cape Cod. A timid, tender, middle-aged professor visits her. After an infinitesimal tiff, they fall in love. That, except for a pair of pleasant children and a brace of pungent New Englanders, is all. The thousands of Nathan readers will find The Sea-Gull Cry pleasant summer reading...