Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owes much to Middle Western authors William Dean Howells. Mark Twain. As a boy he had St. Vitus-like nervous disorders; improved, went to college at Princeton. He returned to live in Indiana, started out as an illustrator. Failing at that he wrote for eight years: his gross returns were $22.50. The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) gave him his start. Penrod (1914) kept him going strong. Now one of the most popular American authors (The Magnificent...
...feelies," danced to the music of sexophones. In the Year of Our Ford 632 every woman wore a Malthusian belt, blushed with joy if a young man told her she was pneumatic. There was no pain, no disease, no old age, little thought. The words, "mother," "baby," "home," were gross obscenities, made so by Our Ford (who sometimes called himself Our Freud). Motto of the World State was Community, Identity, Stability; the Golden Rule was: "Everyone Belongs to Everyone Else." Wisdom came straight from the horse's mouth . . . straight from the mouth of Ford himself: "Ford...
Passing his examinations with a grade of 84.80, William Hale Thompson, one-time Mayor of Chicago, obtained a Federal license to pilot any freshwater yacht up to 500 tons gross...
...members of the congregation, and Mr. Kapp withdrew his invitation. Dr. Marion H. Wilder, osteopath, could not be influenced. Mrs. Henderson spoke at his house, remembered that the day was Daniel Webster's 150th birth anniversary, quoted his "The fact of compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberties of the people in a land of freedom." Harley G. Bowen, police department chauffeur, hearkened to her arguments, refused vaccination, lost his job therefor...
Whistling in the Dark. Here is a combination of facile playwrighting (by Laurence Gross & Edwards Childs Carpenter), skilled and humorous direction (by Frank Craven) and notably high high-comedy acting (by little Ernest Truex). A sort of mystery play to end all mystery plays, it relates the adventures of a detective fictioneer who unexpectedly becomes embroiled with a gang of criminals. A fabricator of "more drugs for the drug stores," Actor Truex boasts to his burly acquaintances that he knows how to commit the perfect crime. His method is to secrete poison in the victim's toothpaste. Thereupon the criminals...