Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women sat quietly all day, all night; old women made gross by lives of toil, pale young women with high heels and disordered hair. They stared. Sometimes, with vague and automatic obedience, they drank coffee or ate sandwiches which were offered them. Sometimes a woman would unlock the padlocked chain on which her dead husband's street clothes had been hoisted to the washroom ceiling. She would take the clothes down, fold them, and leave. But the room stayed quiet-so quiet at times that the distant tolling of church bells, the twitter of sparrows in the rafters, could...
...would have to pay only half price for a license. Easygoing Robert, 57, plays gin rummy every afternoon, turned down a minister last week who promised to grow a beard if Robert would come to Sunday service. They run the business themselves with little top help from outside, gross an estimated $4,500,000 a year...
...Board approved their request for a 10% raise in passenger fares (from 4.68? a mile to slightly more than 5?) to last for 90 days. The lines had cried that increased operating costs had made them lose $10,000,000 last year. The boost, they hopefully estimated, would increase gross revenues by $25,000,000, make up for the increased costs...
Although he was described as being "very happy that there are more high-grade dance schools coming into the business," Arthur Murray-whose 80-some schools now gross $22,000,000 yearly-cut his rates from 10 to 20% at week's end, to "celebrate," said he, "our 33rd anniversary...
...company, which has already sunk $250,000 to $300,000 in its studio and plans to open more studios in other cities, is dancing right along. It has already signed up 1,500 pupils, has made a deal with Western Electric to teach its employees, hopes to gross up to $1,000,000 in New York alone its first year...