Word: grossest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Judge William Squire Kenyon, appeared in Washington Brig. -Gen. Smedley Darlington ("Gimlet Eye") Butler, famed marine, recent drier-up Quantico, Va. (but not of Philadelphia, where his strongarm methods were disapproved). For two hours he told them what he thought of Prohibition: "The grossest piece of class legislation in the country's history . . . like using 16-in. guns to kill sparrows...
...Therefore he ordered the head and neck to be cut off, had the rest labelled "the remainder of the portrait painted by Augustus John," and entrusted it to a servant who, through an idiotic mistake, mailed it to the artist. Said Augustus John: "The grossest, most deliberately gratuitous insult I have ever received." The students at the Slade School marched through the streets of London, carrying headless effigies of Lord Leverhulme which they burned. All over Italy, artists, dealers, masons, picture packers, illustrators-everyone who had anything to do with "art"-declared a 24-hour strike to indicate their horror...
...actually had the temerity to "carry his dead off the field". Among decent, bona fide rebels, it has always been the custom to leave the dead on the field, to be counted by the victorious Marines. Not doing so can only be construed as an act of the grossest ill-breeding. It also, like non-scouting, makes for suspicion--suspicion that perhaps there were no dead, though of course the gallant American commander reports that the mortality among the rebels, despite their unfair tactics, was "heavy...
...produce Swedish smorgasbord (which, after all, is only a piece of bread with a bit of meat, fish or cheese laid on it and served with butter). While some of the recipes thus draw their charm almost entirely from an exotic name, most teem with lucious promise. Even the grossest of non-gourmets might read on after encountering the book's first sentence: "In America the name of garlic is in bad odor." To which the author adds: "This conception is a libel upon garlic and upon the land of garlic eaters...
...figure of physical culture. The revuers pertly refused to comply. Attorney Schultz threatened to sue. The New Yorkers wished he would, for if there was a show in Manhattan which needed publicity, it was theirs. They had a suspicion that the constituency of the second largest and indisputably grossest tabloid in Manhattan was not of such a high order of humanity but that it would applaud the spectacle of its pastor and master, hoist with his own porno-petard...