Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enthusiastic reader of your magazine of long standing, I would like to call your attention to a gross mistake in the issue of Nov. 3, on p. 51, under the heading of "Mortality," where you state: "The following presentations have opened and closed since October i: Luana, Symphony in Two Flats, Nina Rosa...
...works hard, must be reminded to eat and have his hair cut. Sometimes he goes forth to hunt and fish, often returns with mighty plans in his head. Mr. Lyle is executive vice president, treasurer, general manager. His is a good business head. In 1925 the company did a gross business of $2,353,000, earned $112,000. Last year its business was just under $8,000,000, its earnings...
...decade Dr. Baer pondered the coincidence. Medieval doctors, he knew, used to, apply maggots to festering sores, a gross, unlearned practice long abandoned. But maggots are scavengers of the offal they live in. Might it not be that the maggots in his War cases ate up the infected tissue debris, thus preventing blood poisoning? And might they not have secreted something which stimulated the growth of healthy tissue...
...Milt Gross of the American portrayed the imaginary effect on Brooklyn Jewish life of the hero's return: "Hm, you didn't hoid Meester Feitelbaum from Seedney Frenklin wot he fight witt bools. ... So it geeves chirrs de pipple wot it guzz in wodeweel de bool-fighter wot he bicomes yat from tsigarattes in de papers a in-duster. So Isidor (SMACK) ... you be batter a Seedney Frenklin und dunt gatting on de reputt codd a D yat in bool-fighting maybe...
...Author. Artist-Author Milt Gross is famed for his monologs in the Bronx dialect, Nize Baby, Conversations in a Dumb Waiter, which first appeared in the Manhattan World. Since then his syndicated Sunday comic strip, Count Screwloose of Toulouse, has made him a nationally-advertised product. Short, dark, blue-eyed, curly-headed, he is lively, kindly, entertaining. He is married, has three children. Oct. 1 he left the World, became a Hearstman. Other books: Nize Baby, Hiawatta, Famous Fimmales from History...