Word: grunts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alvin York, now 53, weighing 275 but still looking mighty fit, made three stipulations before surrendering to Holly wood: 1) that Gary Cooper impersonate him; 2) that no oomphy (or any other kind of grunt) girl portray his wife; 3) that the picture be an honest account. Result: one of the cinema's most memorable screen biographies...
...Contrary to the widespread belief that fishes possess no voices and therefore must lead a life of perpetual silence," said Interior's Information Service, "many fish are quite noisy creatures." The grunt, for instance, makes a loud, grunting noise at times, and a school of them "playing around the bottom of an anchored boat on a still, tropical night will make enough noise to awaken the sleeping crew...
Without so much as a grunt of compunction, Seminole Indians of eastern Oklahoma re-elected Chief Estahakee (in private life, Farmer George Jones of Wewoka, Okla.) to a third term...
...wrong that the best jazz music you and I have never heard, has been recorded since 1931. Don't get me wrong. I'm not talking about the "jazz classics" where you have the privilege of paying a small fortune to hear Bud Freeman and Pee Wee Russell grunt into their respective instruments on a pretty label. I'm, talking about the records-six bits down-of the Count and the Duke, of Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller, Bittle Holiday and Mildred Balley, Fats Waller and Frankle Newton, and a host of others...
...tune of Tasker Crosson's orchestra the crowd will be served refreshments of ice cream, cigarettes, and cigars, while the stage is being set for Charlie Struck and Ollie Olson, grunt and groan experts from the Boston Garden...