Word: grosser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Indeed, the grosser the gore, the higher the moral standards. One sketch, showing a sprawling lady with her dripping throat slit from ear to ear, was indignantly rejected because her skirt was rucked up above one knee. And, from the start, profanity was simply not tolerated. When the eaters of Sweeney Todd's delicious pies were told that their mouths were full of human flesh, they delicately exclaimed: "Good gracious! . . . Confound...
...Down to Earth (Columbia) Another major grosser: the reissued
Married. Captain Harry C. Butcher, 44, General Eisenhower's ex-aide, confidant and best-selling Boswell (My Three Years with Eisenhower); and Mary Margaret Ford, 34, ex-Red Grosser who met Navyman Butcher in Europe after the Battle of the Bulge; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bryn Mawr...
Leaving the chamber in resounding applause, the President paused to shake hands with two Congressmen in wheel chairs, Missouri's John J. Cochran and Ohio's Robert Grosser. To friends he said: "Now that I've broken the ice, I think I'll come back...
Circling slowly around the the room, Mrs. Grosser sized up each situation in a few minutes, played and then moved on to the next board and an entirely new setup. Winner of Radcliffe's Charles Eliot Norton fellowship, Mrs. Grosser took up chess six years ago. Last spring at New York, she won the United States Women's Championship by defeating Miss N. May Karff of Boston, former titlist, who held the championship for four years...