Word: cheapness
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...endeavors intellectual. He abhors the monetary incentives that spur on novelists and biographers. Likewise he detests the prostitution of literary art by men who write with their tongue in their cheek for the sake of reaping rewards in lucre and not in reputation. His abhorrence of all that is cheap and tainted is great; he is far distant from political graft...
Bread & Gas. Panem et circenses, bread and circuses, were the prime requisites of happiness for the plebs of ancient Rome. Bread and gasoline are prime popular requisites today. Last week no wise Emperor but two ferocious price wars made bread and gas fantastically cheap in San Francisco-three loaves for 10? and 7? a gallon...
Having sold their nickel weekly Liberty to Bernarr Macfadden, Publishers Robert Rutherford McCormick and Joseph Medill Patterson last week negotiated the sale of the factory which made Liberty's cheap paper at Tonawanda, N. Y., to International Paper & Power Co. for $4,000,000. But the rumor that they would retire further from the publishing business, that they would sell their Chicago Tribune to William Wrigley Jr., Albert Davis Lasker et al. (TIME, April 13) had by last week lost most of its steam. First direct quotation of Publisher McCormick on the subject appeared in the form of a note...
...there is no way to get there, no cheap convenient way!" objected the Marshal. "We must build a subway." They told him that would take years?out of the question! He waxed warm; they too. At last the Marshal yielded...
...entitled to plays, and good plays, at prices within their reach," Producer George Sharp has revived Young Sinners, a hit of last season, at a top price of $1. Balcony seats cost 50?. It is an attempt to lure moviegoers back to the theatre. The production is not cheap, the cast is headed by Dorothy Appleby and others from last season's success. It is a bargain at Si. Producer Sharp plans to present more and, it is to be hoped, better $1 plays...