Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Educators in the United States have often been accused of gross extravagance. Mr. H. L. Menckerr and others have bitterly denounced what they consider the too splendid buildings, gymnasium, swimming pools, and manual training shop of city and even rural schools. The present crisis in education, they say, is the direct result of lavish expenditure in better times, when boards of educations piled up huge bonded indebtedness. Now, with no money and less credit, the educators are paying for the sins of their predecessors...
...both hot-footing it after the Republican nomination in 1936 by editorially out-damning each other in successive editions. The upper middle classes, the lawyers and bankers, are scared and make no bones about the matter. The butcher and baker, rightly accepting the editorial shrieks of the papers as gross exaggerations, are going on a "smoke means fire" theory. Only at the universities, Chicago and Northwestern, does one find any vociferous support of New Deal Policies, but this is, of course, highly localized. The Middle West is veering to the right...
...comic operetta which ran at His Majesty's Theatre in London from 1915 to 1920, in Manhattan from 1917 to 1919, is at least intelligible to U. S. cinemaddicts. Its actors muffle their accents, sing with no more affectation than U. S. musicomedy performers. Prepared without either the gross exaggerations of a DeMille or the onyx convolutions of a Busby Berkeley, Chu Chin Chow is elaborate without being absurd. It relates the story of Ali Baba (George Robey) and the 40 thieves, exhibits the misfortunes which overtake the head thief Abu Hasan (Fritz Kortner) when he inflicts unjust punishment...
...that he dumped the question in the lap of the Municipal Assembly, forced it to act quickly by cutting off all relief payments for four days. Last week the Assembly voted three taxes which needed only the Mayor's signature for enactment. First was a 1/10% tax on gross business receipts above $15,000 a year. Second was a tax of 15% on amounts paid in Federal income taxes. Third was a euphemism for "lottery...
...wool overcoats at $10, dresses at $2.99, neckties at 39¢. But in two years President Levin has run up Hearn's sales from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000. Last week he confidently predicted that for 1934 they would be $15,000,000?nearly a fifth of the gross sales of Macy's, biggest U. S. department store...