Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years teachers and pupils fussed over the. Germanic script. While Miss Connor was in school, a devastating reaction set in. Standards collapsed right & left. Youngsters were allowed to run riot with pen and paper, express their personalities in rough squiggles, gross curlicues, boorish scrawls. "Horace Greeley's writing was responsible for this horrid idea," explained Miss Connor. "Just because he was a great man with a dreadful handwriting, it followed that all great men must have dreadful hands...
...large cast there were no individual stars, all playing their parts to perfection. Mr. Jaffee was a very vain and effeminate villain, pursuing the beauteous Miss Hoyden (Mr. Cummin), who did not care to whom she surrendered her irksome virginity. Mr. Gross made a handsome young hero, while Mr. Gaggin was a robust father of the heroine. Playing his part with feeling, Mr. Kuhlke made a fine man of doubtful virility. Also not to be forgotten were Mr. Rabenold, who was perfect as the hero's young servant, and Mr. Humphreys, who made a vigorous old nurse...
...Novelty Fashion (Lord Foppington) will be played by Harold B. Jaffee '36; Young Fashion, his brother, by Mason W. Gross 1G; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey, a country gentleman, by Verner S. Gaggin '35; Miss Hoyden, daughter of Sir Tunbelly, by Robert I. Cummin...
...company by means of this profit-spreading device can add that much money to the gross income of the people," said Promoter Andrews, "think what it will mean when the plan is adopted by a hundred other large industries. It opens a new era, new vistas of prosperity, wholly in keeping with the policies which compose the New Deal...
...into Black. Radio Corporation of America went into the red in 1932, was $16.25 in arrears on every share of Class B stock as late as last December. Last week, with a gross income increase of 26%, RCA reported 1934 net profits of $4,249,000 against a deficit of $582,000 the year before...