Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Possibly the most irksome thing of all to Europeans was simply the gross bad manners of the Americans. Soldiers expressed their violent, ill-informed opinions of a people, a country, a city, in loud voices anywhere...
Rogers & Autry films, aristocrats among the Western series (in which the same stars and support appear six to eight times a year), cost up to a quarter of a million-and a Rogers film can be counted on to gross $650,000. Ordinary oaters return at least a 50% profit. Oaters are, in fact, about the safest investments in the business; their fixed gross can generally be estimated within a few thousand dollars. Of the 316 films made in Hollywood in 1944, 83, or 26%, were Westerns. Aside from the class Western, the only notable development during the past...
...most lucrative breakfast-table act: ABC's Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald, who gross $1,900 a week...
...Murray studios in 61 other U.S. cities are owned independently (mostly by ex-New York instructors), operated under a franchise system through which Murray gets 10% of the gross. Last year all this paid Murray and his wife a net profit of $500,000. This year he hopes to boost his gross to a record...
...large section of the U.S. has yet to realize it. This new collection of short stories may bring a few more readers to appreciate her peculiar talent. She is one of the most knowing and subtle of modern writers, working usually in muted tones, off-colors, remotely gross or secret moods. At her best she is delicate, witty, adroit, a genuine craftsman in the sense that Virginia Woolf was a genuine craftsman. At worst she is simply an unsuccessful craftsman-wasting her skill on an obvious pattern, drawing her lines so fine that a reader is not sure what...