Word: julee
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...saga of Gopher Prairie has been rewritten backward, forward, and on the head of a pin. In its latest form it is the story, mainly, of Dorrie Shirley, a sensitive little girl who had a warm disposition, a prim and unsympathetic sister called Linda, and a grandmother called "Aunt Jule," who ran a ramshackle hotel in an Ohio village...
Dorrie Shirley sat up in the garret with the oldest lodger in the hotel listening to him read; or she watched, with fascinated interest, the two-a-day theatrical folk, the bawdy country wenches, the flabby townspeople, the cheap sports who came to lodge at Aunt Jule's place. She was terrified when she saw the loveliest lady who had ever stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay...
...what has been written by someone who is neither ashamed or proud of naivete, who carries in her mind the torture of youth more brightly than its touch. The book is as interesting as a secret; it is too bad that Author Powell speaks on page 6 of Aunt Jule's "black hair piled in sleek coils" and on page 191 of Aunt Jule remembering "her hair, golden like Linda's . . ." but only people who read books in bed instead of on the subway will notice such trivial but important discrepancies...
...Stratford, N. J., small Jule Price died last March when she was three years old. Her police dog scampered beside the car in which she was taken away. He wagged his tail beside the grave in which Jule Price was buried. Remembering things she had loved once, and might still need, he took them to her one by one, carrying them from a cedar chest in the nursery to the Berlin Cemetery...
...truck, died. Mrs. Price asked that he be allowed to have a grave beside her daughter's grave, but this could not be allowed. So the police dog was buried behind the house where he had lived, and a marble police dog will lie near small Jule Price...