Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the many newcomers was 41-year-old Sculptor Giacomo Manzu, who had executed a provocative bas-relief of the Crucifixion in which the traditional Roman legionary had been replaced by a gross and swaggering Nazi...
...long-faltering U.S. domestic airlines, the distress signals were finally hauled down. The Civil Aeronautics Board reported last week that the 16 major domestic carriers had a gross profit of $11 million for the twelve months ended...
...saws and conveyor belts. Later on, he will go over himself, to install the equipment and hire extra workers (with 75 nephews in Naples, he anticipates no manpower shortage). Before long, he expects to get 1,000,000 stones a month from the quarry (v. 9,000 now), and gross $60,000 a year, 40% of which will go to his brother & sister...
...their heyday beards were valued for keeping women in their place, preventing chest colds and "clergyman's throat' for "[sucking] out the abundant and gross humors of the cheeks," for concealing weak chins, and for training, "like well-bred wall plants." Their combings made an excellent stuffing for cushions. When not being wagged, beards could be carried in a velvet bag (as was one 16th Century dandy's), or their ends were wrapped around a smart walking cane or twined in & out of the waist belt. At night, of course, the beard could serve as an extra...
...every businessman should know, there are guides, known as five-percenters, to lead bewildered contract-seekers out of the swamp in a hurry. The guides, usually former Government officials or ex-Congressmen, know or claim to know the right people. For a retainer and 5% on the gross of any contract obtained, "influence" will be put to work. Few officials will admit that such influence exists, although it is part & parcel of the Governments patronage system. Only last month Defense Secretary Louis Johnson denounced the five-percenters and denied that influence counted at all; anybody, he said, could...