Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...makes little difference what play Ethel Barrymore elects to invigorate with her presence. At least it has made little difference since she played Déclassée. Everything to which she has turned her hand has been trifling. (Cries of " No, No, Romeo and Juliet! " Retorts of " Gross sentimentalism! And look what happened anyway...
...Limit the deductions from gross income for interest paid during the year and for losses not of a business character to the amount the sum of these items exceeds tax-exempt income of the taxpayer...
...special investigating committee of the Senate held hearings at which Major General John F. O'Ryan, counsel for the committee, presented evidence which he has been gathering since last March. The evidence heard accused Colonel Charles Robert Forbes, retired head of the Veterans' Bureau, of extravagance, mismanagement, gross corruption. Colonel Forbes' defense was scheduled to be heard later...
Miss Glenna Collett, former national women's champion: "At a country club near Boston, my father, George H. Collett, and I had the best gross score (88) in the first round of a father-and-daughter tournament...
...monster of 80 tons might offer considerable difficulties, and not a flying field in the U. S. is really equipped to receive such a ship as its guest. Moreover, dirigibles improve with size, but airplanes do not. The larger they are, the heavier their structure in proportion to their gross weight. A limit in airplane size exists, at which a plane can fly but carry nothing except its crew and fuel...