Word: crater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back from trouping the Pacific was 50-year-old Comedian Joe E. Brown, grey-haired and 15 lb. lighter, home for a rest. Father of the late Army Air Forces Captain Don Evan Brown, killed in action, the crater-mouthed clown had been diligently gagging for the armed forces for more than a year, had given as many as ten shows a day. He had pretty well covered Alaska and the Hawaiian Islands, was the first entertainer to reach South Pacific advanced bases. Of his isolated audiences he reported: "Even when they couldn't hear me they...
...Most famed Bairnsfather cartoon: Old Bill, peering from a shell-hole crater in No Man's Land, tells his grumbling companion: "Well, if yer knows a better...
Since January 1942 the Japanese had held Rabaul on Blanche Bay, the flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul...
...York City's Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine got another tip on the whereabouts of Judge Joseph Force Crater, famously missing since 1930. To Valentine came a postcard confiding: "Judge Crater is running a bingo game in Africa...
...Japanese ability of self deception has not been dulled. Last week Domei flooded Argentine editors with accounts of the first anniversary of Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Filipino quisling, Jorge B. Vargas, chief of the Civil Administration of the islands, steered another Japanese train over a verbal crater. Said he: "One year has passed like a dream. . . . Manila is not what it was. Not only does it display its crown of metropolis; it also is the market place and vitalizer of the Philippines, reuniting constituent qualities of its idiosyncracy. It is this spiritual idiosyncracy which constitutes the basis...