Word: whelk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seashore with more than a specialist's curiosity. She evokes that sense of private peace and mystical wonder that Anne Lindbergh brought to her Gift from the Sea. She explores and celebrates a world of ferment and vitality, from the humble mole crab to the dog-whelk snail, from submarine forests to rock pools...
Alexander Mackendrick's High and Dry is very possibly the funniest Baling comedy to date, a picture as salty and Scottish as a whelk in the Firth of Forth. A sort of sister picture to his Tight Little Island, this one might be called a tragedy of plumbing...
...seems strange that a radical much form a background for normal a dents with the old-fashioned idea of bell close to nature, it is not strange to Dartmouth, where the usual would be out of place. Old President Whelk's motto still holds: "The voice of one crying the wilderness." And so far, no one offered to make that a chorus...