Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...painstaking reviews of War events. When it was over the Digest could justly claim that it handled the War better than any other magazine. Its circulation was well over the million mark, and in the next few years hit a 2,000,000 peak, with a year's gross revenue of $11,000,000. Perhaps no non-fiction magazine could have maintained that circulation. In any case the Digest had circulation trouble, slumped to 1,000,000. Last year's total revenue: $3,000,000. Publisher Cuddihy looks much younger than his 70 years. He lives in elegant...
...much as know what was wrong with the boy and made no effort to find out. She told me they put him to rest in bed, gave him whatever liquid nourishment he was able to swallow, and trusted in God and prayer. It's a case of gross ignorance or insanity, I don't know which. . . . It is an outrage against civilization...
...gross income $860,000 is from advertising and $550,000 membership dues which include a subscription to the Journal...
Suing for Divorce. Elizabeth Staley Dickey, 40, first white woman to penetrate the jungles of Ecuador; from Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 57, explorer and archaeologist who in 1931 located the source of the Orinoco River; in Dayton, Ohio. Grounds: gross neglect. Wed in 1925, the Dickeys honeymooned in South American jungles. Said she on her return: ''Oysters, music and having one's husband all to yourself are all that civilization offers...
Ellington's arrangements, apparently tossed off in the approved hot, spontaneous manner, have been carefully worked out at rehearsals beginning often at 3 a. m. after his theatre and night-club engagements, which gross as much as $250,000 a year. Ellington will sit at the piano, play a theme over, try a dozen different variations. Spidery Freddy Jenkins may see an ideal spot for a hot double-quick trumpet solo. Big William Brand may be seized with a desire to slap his double-bass, almost steal the percussion away from Drummer Sonny Greer. Duke Ellington lets...