Word: cheapness
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...large affairs in New York with lack of concern touching the welfare of their city. New York has no political, let alone moral, leadership. . . . What has the Mayor of New York done to uncover wrong or to enthrone right? Not one manly, valiant step on his part. Cheap gestures and cheaper words. . . . The affairs of the first city in the world are presided over as if these were a Coney Island Mardi Gras. . . . ! Such a city as New York deserves as mayor a Dwight Morrow, a Thomas Lament, a Herbert Hoover or an Al Smith...
...Camp Gillette, was 40, I first thought of the safety razor." So, a decade ago, wrote the father of a great company, a great industry. The proud ring in his words was justified. His invention was no haphazard one. For years he had pondered the possibilities of finding some cheap article that would be used daily, and have a constant replacement demand. The growth of Gillette Safety Razor Co. had been fast and sure, accomplished out of earnings. Into all countries had gone packages of blades, carrying the dollar-proud face of King Camp Gillette. Last week he still...
Aside from the presumption of making cheap talk about prosperity at a time when unemployment is causing acute suffering, the Massachusetts Republicans lose sight of their public duty when in a Walpole-like fashion they refuse to go to the polls on a straightforward platform. Prohibition is the issue in this election and it is an issue of grave importance for the future welfare of the Commonwealth. For the Republican press to becloud that issue with nonsense about a Democratic depression is to affirm their belief in the doctrine that it is easy to fool enough of the people...
...fallen to the lure of publicity and has entered into negotiations with Mr. Vallee, designed to make the University of Toronto known from coast... There is a limit and it comes, we think, when college after college succumbs to the crooning voice of the New Yorker and goes after cheap radio and song sheet publicity, inimical to the interests of culture and education which a university, we have always erroneously thought, is supposed to embrace and cultivate. --McGill Daily...
Although many a commodity has rallied from its low, last week the principal foodstuffs were still, in Manhattan at least, "dirt cheap." At last week's prices, corn, wheat and rye were respectively .018?, .016? and .01? a pound. In Manhattan good topsoil sells at $3 for a 200-lb. barrel...