Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Figures. Total gross gate for the series was $953,772. To each member of the winning team: $5,038. To each of the losers...
...DONE HER WRONG-Milt Gross- Doubleday, Doran ($2). Funnyman Gross can write entertainingly, uproariously, like several kinds of fool, several kinds of knave, but in this book he has not written a word. He Done Her Wrong is a "novel" in pictures, a takeoff on anything you like to mention: melodrama, cinema, picture-novels, the U. S., Virtue, Vice, comic strips...
...happen to be a son of Senator Fess, having resided in New York for the past six years, and, as far as his ever having been classified in the wet column is concerned, I can assure you that you are doing him a very gross injustice. As a matter of fact, he has been a sincere dry advocate during his entire lifetime...
...week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...
...Taylor Springer. The railroad was running smoothly. He was satisfied. Western Maryland trains were on schedule over their 875 mi. of track. Engineers, brakemen, switchmen, signalmen were on the job. The road's car-loadings were keeping up at a remarkable rate. During the past dull nine months, gross had dropped only...