Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived through a war, he said, because he had heard bombs; he had been told the King was dead, but knew little else of the world's past three decades. An amiable and uncomplaining model patient, he was suffering, said the doctor in charge, "from a gross form of mental apathy and a schizophrenic disorder from which recovery will inevitably be slow...
...dishing out some of the casual poison that has got her barred from the sets of such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Samples: "Errol [Flynn] says he doesn't worry about money just as long as he can reconcile his net income with his gross habits . . . Lana Turner is saying that Bob Topping owes her $82,000. Moral: Never marry a trust fund...
...sources. By its performance, A.F.P. largely managed to avoid the taint of being kept. As a result, by last year A.P.P. had grown even bigger than old Havas, was servicing 41 countries, 2,500 newspaper clients (including North and South American), 120 radio stations. This year it expects to gross 1,080,000,000 francs ($3.1 million) on top of its 1,470,000,000-franc ($4.2 million) government subsidy...
...select fraternity of corporations with gross sales of more than $1 billion, some new members were admitted last week. Latest additions, on the basis of 1951 tabs: International Harvester, Shell Oil, Goodyear Tire & Rubber (first rubber company to make the grade), Standard Oil of California, National Dairy, Republic Steel. Total membership...
...white wine...can really be said to improve with age," and "most connoisseurs would open their Moselles before three years." I feel sure Professor Saintsbury has been mis-cited; such statements might not be strictly untrue as generalizations, but most members of the Tastevin would agree that they are gross oversimplifications. Why, it is like saying that all the wines of the Medoc have intellectual bouquets--a statement that totally ignores the near bluffness of the Brainaire Ducru and the sincerity of the Pichon Longueville (doubtless due to its being a Pauillac). But to return to the Moselles: I have...