Word: cheapness
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Alarmed, peppery little Senator Carter Glass of Virginia sent a telegram to Manhattan. Reassuring, lively little Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democracy telegraphed back: "The story of Jack Johnson being authorized to speak on behalf of the Democratic National Committee is cheap Republican propaganda. Johnson has no connection with this committee in any capacity...
...Make the price for the day's outing comparatively cheap-$2.50 or even...
...scared liquor interests of Sweden for a song. The doctor's wife, a Baroness in her own right, and other influential connections at Court and among politicians, facilitated Schemer Bratt by contriving to postpone the enactment of national prohibition, while his pool bought out the liquor barons cheap...
From elaborate exhibits in museum and department store to window displays in cheap furniture shops, "modern decorative art" has been thrust at last upon the U. S. public. Justification is now undertaken by Paul Frankl, enthusiastic creator of skyscraper dressing tables, who traces origins in Austria, Germany, and, above all, Paris, where dressmakers felt the need of new backgrounds for their simple (but oh so intricate) knee-length frocks. In a spirit of cooperation, the new decorator therefore scraps everything old (the pyramids excepted), and matches modern life with "simple rhythmic combinations of masses," and sharp color contrasts, rather than...
...seconds. Last week, for the first time, second class sleepers ran from Paris to the principal frontiers and to Marseilles. But in Scandinavia and Germany there are even third class sleepers, not yet to be found in France, Spain, Italy, Balkans. Citizens of the U. S. could have similarly cheap sleeps, en route, were they not democratically unwilling to lie down in a class inferior to "Pullman." Russians have got round the class distinction by installing "soft" and "hard" sleeping cars...