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Word: gless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...look de book, momma- look de peecture!! Is a hape, no?? So I say, 'Baby, dollink, wot's dees??' So he saz me, 'A hape!' Look it stends: 'Playe stends for hape Wot he leeves in de trizz; Whan he nidds a gless meelfc He'll a cuccanot squizze!!'" All Milt Gross's humor is like this. There is no satire, no attempt at subtlety, beyond the infinite subtlety of the extraordinary dialect in which his characters cavort. They-Mr. & Mrs. Feitlebaum, Looy, Isidore, Nize Baby, Mrs. Noftolis-are continuously excited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dunt Esk Anodder | 7/25/1927 | See Source »

...line-ups were as follows: HARVARD BROWN Wilson, Hirshon, l.e. r.e., Simmons, Taylor Cummings, l.t. r.t., Strickler Short, Cogan, l.g. r.g. McDermott Gross, c. c., Gless, Maget, Baptiste Rubin, r.g. l.g., Burman Tower, Hamilton, r.t. l.t., Armstrong, Johnson, Metzzer Hill, Kennedy, r.e., l.e., Smith, Stevens Greenberg, q.b. q.b., Brown Giroux, L. Nichols, Martin, r.h.b. r.h.b., Sullivan Pratt, l.h.b. l.h.b., Higgins Dempsey, R. Nicholas f.b. f.b., Gregory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY SECONDS MIX IT UP WITH BROWN FOR 14-14 TIE SCORE | 11/12/1921 | See Source »

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