Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feel justified in calling your attention to it as the City Manager and Chief Executive of the City of Cincinnati. The author of the above mentioned editorial seems to take great pleasure in disparaging prominent citizens whose success has been acquired through industry. Moreover, there are a number of gross misstatements in the article, and I feel now that this matter has been called to your attention, that you will, in all fairness, make proper and due apology for the above mentioned article...
...autonomy of Czechoslovakia into complete national religious autonomy. A lingering religious fly in the honey of Czechoslovak nationalism has been constituted by the fact that certain ancient dioceses held by German and Hungarian prelates with authority from the Pope have naturally overlapped the new and sovereign frontier of Czechoslovakia. Gross and irksome has been the overlapping of the Hungarian diocese of Estergom, the German diocese of Breslau. Last week these points of friction and many another were neatly sanded down by the announcement that a modus vivendi had been signed between those two suave soothers of states and souls...
...said to have told the public that Miss Talley was going to retire from concert singing for one year in order to study, that she had earned $334,892 from her concerts during the last two years (in addition to her Metropolitan Opera salary). Miss Talley resented this "gross breach of confidence," said: "In order to get rid of him [Coppicus], because I was dissatisfied with the work he was doing for me, I told him I was not singing next year. . . . Without doubt I will sing in concerts next season. In fact, I have already signed a contract with...
Japanese Electricity. The largest corporation in Japan (capital, $20,000,000; gross annual earnings $55,000,000) was formed last week upon the merging of the Tokyo Electric Light Co. and the Tokyo Electric Power Co. One of the largest public utility companies in the world, it operates over 10,000,000 sq. mi. of Japanese territory, serves 10,000,000 (one-sixth) of Japan's population. The Guaranty Company of Manhattan helped accomplish the merger...
California. The California, largest merchantship (22,000 gross tons) ever built in the U. S. and the only liner driven by electricity, glided into New York Harbor last week to take on stores for her maiden trip to San Francisco. For motive power, fuel oil generates steam, which operates two turbines, which operate two dynamos, which operate two motors, which operate two propeller shafts, which make the ship go. She is vibrationless...