Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...form will be the minimum dramatic contract adopted by the Authors League of America and the Producing Managers Association. Under it royalties will be five percent on the first $5000 gross weekly receipts, seven and one half percent on the next $2500, and ten percent on anything above...
...looked at Sussex towns and people too, from these intimate, if unconventional vantage points. One feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...Root 1G.B., defeated G. W. Howe 1G.B., 7-9, 8-6, 6-3; S. F. Nicholson 1G.B., defeated P. K. Edwards 2G. B., 6-3, 6-4; R. W. Marks 2G.B., defeated L. G. Harrier 1G.B., 6-1, 6-2; H. K. Gross 2G.B., defeated J. C. Baker 1G.B...
...great many people," he continued, "think that the public must be educated to understand and appreciate good drama. As a matter of fact, this is a gross misconception. The public is continually calling for the best. Some of the theatre guilds make the foolish mistake of announcing to the public that they are about to present something better than they have ever seen before. They then give plays which may be beautiful, but which were never intended to be acted. The result is complete failure...
Score another for Feminism! the cult whose fundamental plank man has so impudently presumed to assail,-the movement which would tumble woman from her reverential pedestal to the same gross level of Masculinism. But man can take his comfort in the fact that nicotine stains on the fingers that get his breakfast will not measurably affect its flavour. And as for woman: from the Saint Regis to the Pre "Cat" she may forever puff her "scented" in peace...