Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Frederick Beck Patterson, cash register tycoon, of Dayton, Ohio; by Mrs. Evelyn Van Tuyl Huffman Patterson, in Dayton. Grounds: "gross neglect and cruelty...
...hundred artists, illustrators and cartoonists, headed by Charles Dana Gibson, and including Clare A. Briggs, Percy Crosby, H. C. ("Bud") Fisher, Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg, Milt Gross, John Held Jr., Oliver Herford, Rea Irwin, Maxfield Parrish, Abram Poole, George Benjamin Luks, William Meade Prince, Henry Patrick Raleigh, Cliff Sterrett, Herbert Roth, H. T. Webster, Gluyas Williams, announced through the Democratic National Committee active support of Nominee Smith...
...Rome-builder Kobler? He is nearly 52 years old and has never been a newspaper reporter. He dresses smartly, carries a malacca stick, and speaks in a Milt Gross accent. He lives in one of the largest apartments on Park Avenue, Manhattan. Once, his charming wife expressed a fancy for square jewels; he bought for her an emerald both square and huge. Typical of him is the fact that when he first asked Mr. Hearst for the American Weekly advertising job he pulled out a fist-full of advertising contracts already signed and at a higher rate...
...More of Lincoln's human understanding and more love for the common people than any man who has been a Presidential candidate since Lincoln's time."-Edwin J. Gross, oldtime friend and supporter of Wisconsin's late Robert Marion La Follette...
...witnessed the murder trial of Ruth Snyder and Judd Gray; that brooding upon it, she was able to select from the gaudy tangle a single thread on which to build her tragedy. Thus in Machinal a young woman marries, to escape the routine of work in an office, a gross and chuckling businessman. She bears him a child which she hates as she fears its father; then, in a speakeasy, she meets a man with whom she falls in love. He tells her how, in Mexico, he killed a native by hitting him on the head with a bottle full...