Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gravel Throat." Barris, the son of an old Coney Island partner of Eddie Cantor's, was a song writer of considerable savor (I Surrender, Dear; It Must Be True; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams). He was also such a cocky little entertainer that the partners nicknamed him "Mr. Show Business." He worked up a fast routine with himself and Rinker at baby pianos, Crosby at his baby cymbal, rapid patter, breaks, and percussive slamming of the piano top by Barris himself. He wrote Mississippi Mud. The Rhythm Boys' record of it, with Crosby's doleful passage about...
Crosby was in the process of discovering that what he called his "gravel throat" was one of the most sentimentally appealing voices in history. It was all but lost in the horseplay vocalism. But once he knew it was around, Crosby took good care to find it. In 1929 the trio broke...
Officer POWs are not required to work, keep themselves amused with their hobbies and the elaborate pebble work common to all prison camps. One barracks at Crossville boasts an iron cross featly executed in gravel. Germans do a good deal of wood carving and clay modeling...
...Mile Airdrome* near Port Moresby, New Guinea, is no pilot's paradise. It is a flight strip about one mile long, paved with steel mats laid on gravel. The mats are a fairly recent improvement; there was a time when the tricycle landing-geared 6-243 could not be used from X-Mile Field because the nose wheel would sink down in the loose dirt. At the lower end of the field is a graveyard of cracked-up and salvaged planes. When the bombers lift their wings over this they are quickly out over the open...
...Mile Field is a barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...