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...cree-ay-ter of the gratest comical stripp in all cree-ay-shun, naimly 'Peerless Fosdick,' who is mah ideel. . . . Lately, other comical stripp cree-ay-ters bin cree-ay-tin even more horibul cree-ay-shuns than yo Like ladys wif gravel in thar hare, mudd in thar eyes an who smells badd. Natcherly, the Americun public in-joys this vurry much. . . . Go to it, Gooch, whomp up a lady that is so itchy, so shakey, so smelly, an so onbarubbly disgustin thet once agin yo will be the king of the funny page...
Into the mahogany-paneled office of Mexican Foreign Minister Francisco Castillo Nájera marched dry, gravel-voiced U.S. Ambassador George S. Messersmith. What, asked Messersmith, about the charges of Mexican labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano that "certain U.S. firms" were smuggling arms to the Sinarquistas, Mexico's clerical fascists? At week's end, the reply: "The Mexican Government does not . . . support the statements of Lombardo Toledano...
...Manhattan, gravel-voiced Robert H. Armstrong, vice president of the New York Building Congress, gave vent to what he termed a fundamental economic principle: "The cure for high prices is more high prices. . . ." Frank W. Cortright, executive vice president of the National Association of Home Builders, damned price controls as "unrealistic...
Marlene Dietrich received an accolade from Manhattan's autograph puppies, who rewarded her willingness to sign by adopting her as "Aunt Minnie." Top-ranking non-collaborators, reported the bobby-sox collectors, were "Gruesome Garson," "Gravel Gertie Nissen" and "Break-Your-Arm Benchley...
...wartime years had left their mark. Weeds grew around once immaculate service stations, in many a gravel drive and rural schoolyard. Vermont's neglected pastures were overrun with purple bergamot, and Louisiana's bayous with orchidlike water hyacinth. Fireweed grew on steep acres of newly logged land in the Western foothills. But in its broad sweep, in color and loom of hill, the land was unchanged...