Word: grossing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...approved, and the months between had seen damaging blows to his prestige-the Balkan campaign, the loss of Crete. As far as British popular sentiment went, the vote indicated that the Prime Minister's personal prestige would probably survive another defeat-provided it was not due to gross incompetence...
...Delta runs 20 flights daily over 1,584 miles between Savannah, Atlanta, Cincinnati and Dallas. In the nine months ending March, its five Douglas DC-3s (delivered in January) and four Lockheed Electras carried 39,444 passengers, more than 800% above the whole of 1935. Delta's gross from operations was $851,470 in the same period, of which about $50,000 still came from crop-dusting work. But depreciation and personnel-training costs went up so fast the line lost $31,116, first deficit since...
These episodes of life in The Bronx have for principal characters Bella Gross, a private secretary who will not let herself be called a stenographer; her father and mother; and the young man she thinks occasionally of marrying, Max Fine, a C.P.A. who will not let himself be called a bookkeeper. All the stories (originally printed in The New Yorker and now illustrated by The New Yorker's Sydney Hoff) achieve the distinction of being not only funny but sympathetic...
...human speech of any writer since Ring Lardner." In one way Kober tops Lardner, for Lardner's baseball players talked pretty much alike, whereas there are distinct differences-some obvious, some subtle-in the talk of Bella and Max as against that of Ma and Pa Gross...
...older generation have learned a patois that passes for English, but they retain sentence structures from Yiddish (Pa Gross, protesting a torrent of talk: "Like a machine is gung the tunks. Like a sobvay is coming the woids-tukk, tukk, tukk!"). They put extra consonants in certain words-"udder" for or, "paintner" for painter, "finndish" for finish. They say "chonging" for charging, "serrisfied" for satisfied, "tenner" for tenant...