Word: gulleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...False & Unfriendly." When the Mondays' house was invaded by Gulley Jimson, a ne'er-do-well painter, Sara's troubles came to a head. A family friend, whose conclusions were "false, and what was worse, unfriendly," tattled to Matt, and domestic peace was destroyed. Matt wasted away and Sara ran off with Gulley. Sara was happy, for Gulley "was the most of a man I ever knew." And even after he ran off with another woman and destitute Sara became a cook for eccentric old Mr. Wilcher, she was willing to steal for Gulley when he turned...
Three years after Herself Surprised appeared in England, Cary published a sequel, The Horse's Mouth. The story of Gulley and Sara in their old age, it is a wonderfully comic and roisterous novel, tougher and more brilliant than Herself Surprised. Taken together, the two novels form one of the most impressive pieces of English writing in the past decade...
...back. He was Ernest Steele-Ernest K. Steele. He had been fishing, then driving down Franklin Canyon Road on his way home. He guessed he had gone to sleep; he had a vague memory of terror, of feeling his car plunge through a fence and sail out into the gulley. He twisted on the hard ground until his back was raw and his wounded hand throbbed with pain. Then he thought of his wife, Mae, at home in Richmond, and he lay still and wept...
Featuring pictures of the Grepon, Europe's most famous rock climb, and the third ascent ever to be made of Pinacle Gulley in Mt. Washington's Huntington Ravine, the Mountaineering Club will open its ranks tonight to all those who would like to scale mountains by means other than well-worn trails...
Albie Everts centers the second line, flanked by Juniors Dick Harding and Caleb Loring. HARVARD B. U. Paine, lw lw, Anderson McGrath, c c, McArthur Gebelein, rw rw, Gulley Dreher, ld ld, Shoemaker Summers, rd rd, Blasenak O'Neill, g g, Sullivan