Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kingdom had these pamphlets printed at its own printshop (whence issues Dynamite, the Kingdom's official organ) and had them circulated as if they came from an atheist society? So declared the Macon, (Ga.,) Telegraph. Further, the Telegraph hardily asserted that the Supreme Kingdom was "shot through with the grossest commer-cialism." It stated that Dr. Straton was to receive $30,000 for 60 sermons. Interviewed, the Rev. Mr. Straton denied that his new office would interfere with his work as pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church, Manhattan, or with his annual winter trips to Florida. Last Saturday...
Earl Carroll's Vanities. Following the "Fifth and Grossest of All" comes the International edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities. The hordes in the chorus look much like their predecessors, are engineered about into similar stage designs by the same swinging hooks, rising platforms, whirling chandeliers a-dangling with girlies. The international phase of the title and show is suggested by the presence of several Chariot Revue actors (English)?not, however, Beatrice Lillie or Gertrude Lawrence. They do one clever, satirical skit, in which a radio play is presented; in which all the spoken lines are made to contain...
Earl Carroll's Vanities. The fifth and grossest of all edition of Earl Carroll's Vanities, in spite of an irrelevant dash of Spanish atmosphere, presents the most authentic (but not at all unusual) impression of a medical student's nightmare. Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! Stuck all over the stage. Hung in midair, on dangling hooks. Rigid-as the law requires. Slowly they are wheeled in circles, yanked up, let down, by fiendish, invisible agencies. Occasionally they spring into action, appear as living, writhing creatures. Into this horror have strayed a few bits of freshness-Magda de Bries...
Unfortunately this is a difficulty which besets all too many educational functions. The frailty of human nature is a well-recognized failing, and any committee is liable to the grossest sort of error. But to see too great a danger in this instance in face of the repeated assurance on the part of the Committee on Admission that each applicant will be considered on his individual merits, is perhaps exaggerating pessimism...
...secretary. The book is therefore no apology. From its nature it magnifies Colonel House, forces him to the centre of the stage. The result has already shown itself in criticism by the admirers of President Wilson. Senator Kenneth Douglas McKellar of Tennessee last week exploded: "It is the grossest piece of effrontery for this unknown man from Texas, whom no one ever heard of, to seek to show that Woodrow Wilson was a puppet. Of all the brazen effrontery, this is the worst. He is guilty of the basest ingratitude." Said Senator Caraway: "There is one thing that Colonel House...