Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...four-fifths of a cent). He found a national deficit of nine billion lei ($54,000,000) ; and that advances already made to the State by the National Bank of Rumania greatly exceeded the legal limit. In short, the new Prime Minister charged his predecessors with every sort of gross malfeasance. They had kept on the State payroll, he said, hundreds of persons now dead and some who were never born. Dolefully he admitted that it might prove temporarily impossible to meet the government payroll charges for the current month...
...Fellowship Forum, a National Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Fraternal Interpretation of the World's Current Events, achieved more fame than it ever had before and, in percentage, it won more circulation and showed a greater increase in gross revenue than any other U. S. publication. From the publisher's standpoint, it won the campaign. "Fraternal" means that The Fellowship Forum is the organ of the Ku Klux Klan and all those who believe that the Pope and Al Smith want to hang 100% Protestant-American babies from the trees on the White House lawn. The Fellowship Forum...
...would only create an other army of grafters. Perhaps I will raise trees. Even if I'm rich now, I don't believe any woman is going to get me" In March, 1927, while the case was on appeal, he became the fifth husband of Mrs. Hersee Gross. At the Fairmont Hotel. San Francisco, he "wasn't so stuck on the highfalutin suite of rooms." But the Desert Rat was temporarily in funds...
Shipping. Defraying three-fourths of the construction expenses of four combined cargo and passenger vessels to total 32,800 gross tons, the Shipping Board last week loaned the Export Steamship Corp. of New York, $4,500,000. This was the loan under the new Jones-White Merchant Marine...
...theatre of the University Players Guild at Woods Hole. Massachusetts has already been broken, it was announced last night by T. J. Smith '30, manager of the Harvard Dramatic Club. The Guild, comprised of 25 players, ran a two months season at Falmouth last summer, netting a $11000 gross gain. As a result of this success, it plans to open the new $40.000 theatre next summer for two months, after which the players will perform during the winter season in New York City...