Word: gulling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern Light from a wicked, sensation-mongering London press lord. When he refuses, the villainous Londoners go to work on him. They bring in their own paper, hire away Henry's old employees, grab his old advertisers, buy the very building he prints in. They even gull his giddy daughter into an interview in which she announces her admiration for their paper. Poor Henry is brought to his knees, and to bringing out the Northern Light by duplicating machine. That starts rallying British readers to the underdog, and in the end, after other trials that the reader may endure...
...performance-thick-textured, solidly shaped, glowing with suffused light -that Graffman's audiences have come to expect of him. The great, blustery music of the first movement burst from the piano in finger-blurring but perfectly articulated gusts of sound; the contrasting adagio glided as serenely as a gull...
...Young's 300-odd grandchildren; of a bleeding ulcer complicated by pneumonia; in Norwalk, Conn. Young taught (on and off since 1917) at Manhattan's Art Students League, kept within the realistic tradition, created two of his best-known works for his native Salt Lake City: Sea Gull Monument and Pioneer Monument...
That took the heart out of the Sturgis crowd. It was reduced to muttering about "police brutality." That night-under the watchful eyes of a detail of troopers-the local White Citizens League rallied, heard prayerful thanks because "God did not cross us with a sea gull or a crow." It was all just so much noise. Next morning Sturgis was as quiet as if it had always had an integrated school...
Died. Joseph Ferdinand ("Professor Sea Gull," "The Mongoose") Gould, 68, self-styled "Last of the Bohemians," colorful, scraggy-bearded habitue of Greenwich Village bars and Bowery flophouses; in Pilgrim State (mental) Hospital, Brentwood, N.Y. A descendant of silk-stockinged Boston families, Harvardman CTI) Gould was a onetime (1916-17) New York Evening Mail police reporter, a sometime literary critic, since 1917 had worked with savage intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which...