Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Campaign. Though the new hotel's fame quickly spread, it has never been a big moneymaker. In its first ten years it lost $12 million. Last year, the Waldorf managed to net $657,981 on a gross of $18.7 million. But the profit percentage is slipping. For the first eight months of 1949, the Waldorf grossed $11.8 million, netted only...
...potential singing and acting talent are lavisbly present. Jane Fickens has a good voice and enough unpleasantness for the mean role of Regina, and Brenda Lewis has singing ability and desperation for the unhappy Birdic. The other players seem quite adequate. But Robert Lewis' direction is seriously incpt and gross. Birdie begins too many of her songs lovingly stroking the back of a satin chair. The frollicking little Negro boy is nothing but trite, and Regina's daughter, Alexandra, is far more of a bop fan than a young Southern beauty of 1900. Regina destroys the last and most, effective...
...Royal Canadians' record was pretty hard to beat. Consistently, since 1931, radio editors had ranked them among the top dance bands on the air. For 20 years their gross had been near $1,000,000 a year. They had introduced more than 300 hits, such as Little White Lies, You're Driving Me Crazy, Boo-Hoo-and were still playing all of them the same old way. This year, the American Society of Teachers of Dancing thanked them with a Distinguished Service Scroll for consistently acting as a bulwark against "invasions by hordes of cynical jive extremists...
...bitten stars thought they had found a sure-or almost sure-way out of their troubles in the high tax brackets. If they struck oil, they could deduct 50% to 75% of the drilling expenses from their income, and later deduct 27½% of their annual gross from the well, as "depletion." Moreover, they could sell the well later and pay only a long-term capital gains (25%) tax on the profit. If the well was dry, they could write off the whole cost as a loss, thus cut down taxable income. Though many a hopeful had hit nothing...
...everyone she meets, Margaret soon meets her match. Her crippled cousin (Dean Stockwell) turns out to be the same sort of brat. In the tantrum match that follows, the two youngsters give themselves (and the audience) a crashing good time yowling, screeching and smashing what appears to be a gross of studio crockery...