Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tunney went over to him, put two arms on his shoulders, said: "Tom, you are a game man." . . . Promoter George L. ("Tax") Rickard, complaining that the radio was ruining his business and threatening to bar broadcasting in the future, announced a fight deficit of $155,719. The figures: Receipts Gross gate ............................. $691,014 Federal and state taxes........ 169,591 Net gate.................................... 521,423 Cinema rights........................... 20,000 Radio rights...
Senator Gillett wrote to the New York Times: "The words and insinuation you ascribe to me I neither uttered nor conceived . . . You have been imposed upon ... by a gross perversion and distortion of a harmless remark...
...latter thus describes an encounter with the Monk, who had been summoned to answer to the Cabinet for his gross immorality. "He ran his pale eyes over me," declared Stolypin, "mumbled mysterious and inarticulate words from the Scriptures, made strange movements with his hands, and I began to feel an indescribable loathing for this vermin sitting opposite me. Still I did realize that the man possessed great hypnotic power, which was beginning to produce a fairly strong moral impression on me. ... I was able to pull myself together...
Propaganda. The first item of Hooverizing publicity was a report, probably exaggerated but meant to illustrate the famed Hoover efficiency, that to save time and reduce cost, Nominee Herbert Hoover buys his suits six at a time, hats three at a time, shoes by the dozen, collars by the gross...
Embarrassing enough to be a vice president and director of a bank which fails. More embarrassing to be charged with gross negligence in the bank's management and to be sued for $1,850,000 by 7,000 depositors. Still more embarrassing to be a U. S. Senator when these things happen. And most embarrassing of all, thought observers, for aged U. S. Senator Francis Emory Warren of Wyoming ("The Greatest Shepherd Since Abraham"), against whom the $1,850,000 suit was brought last week. Senator Warren, of all Senators, might be considered a sound bank official. For many...