Word: gravell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seven years ago Lady Diana and some friends formed a company to sell the gravel from the beach in front of her summer place at Bognor Regis on England's south coast. There beauteous Lady Diana slopped the hogs, kept two swarms of bees, tended two goats, 30 chickens, milked The Princess (a cow). "The Princess is such a lovely cow," said she. "I simply adore her. And she gives so much good milk...
Cost of a gravel-top road, under a bill introduced in the House by Delegate Anthony Joseph Dimond of Alaska, would be about $25,000,000-roughly the price of a new 10,000-ton cruiser. Until last week the whole plan sounded pretty far-fetched to the House. But with Hitler's shadow coming east against the sun, it began to look as if others besides Warren Magnuson might begin to think about Alaska...
...spoiled the countryside; the creeks turned into muddy sewers; pigs fed on the bodies of war horses. The boys from Covington built a fort, stole black powder, and shot nails and gravel at the kids from Newport across the Licking River. The Newport boys stole revolvers and shot at the kids from Covington when they went swimming. One of Dan's friends shot a Newport boy with a shotgun load of nails and gravel. "We did not understand," said Dan Beard, ". . . why it was wrong for the boys to fight when all the men of the nation were fighting...
Problem. In the Delaware River, a cargo of gravel shifted suddenly in a steel barge. The barge turned over on a wooden scow beside it; the two clamped deck to deck like the shells of a clam (see cut). Last week rivermen still wondered how to get them apart...
...wife (Billie Burke), her maid (Patsy Kelly) and his colored chauffeur (Eddie Anderson) back to the scene of the crime for a dose of spooks. Before Topper points a thin, hesitating finger at the murderer the film shows: Billie Burke in her familiar role as an addlepate; gravel-voiced Eddie Anderson falling through trap doors, rasping protest; Carole Landis' highly touted legs; Patsy Kelly cracking wise...