Word: gulley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Centre of the damage was the Santa Ana River, a gravel-filled gulley which usually dribbles placidly through the Santa Ana Mountains, 35 miles southeast of the city, across 20 miles of farming country to the sea just south of Long Beach. Last week the Santa Ana burst a dam at Fairmont Lake, roared five feet deep through the streets of Riverside. On the flatland it became a muddy torrent whose waters spread out ten miles wide, turning orchards, farms and villages into a churning sea in which 15 people drowned...
...pointer seemed shaky and uncertain, spent much time roaming off course, located only two coveys. Saddler, a 4-year-old pointer who should have known better, disgraced himself by scooting off after a calf, pouncing on a litter of shoats, killing one and getting himself butted into a gulley...
...telling of the tale, much of which was made in Missouri, almost the whole of it out-of-doors. It is Lionel Barrymore's best part in years and a valid and vital contribution to current cinema. Some shots: Possums drowsing on a bough, hounds running down a gulley, seen from above; a fox in his den, snapping at the hounds through the narrow opening; the courthouse at Jefferson City...