Word: cheapness
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...reason" for letters like the "famed" X. Y. Z. W. Something-Somethingelse's.f To one who fully realizes the beauty "swan-song" and the aptness inventor in of the "swan dirge" expression stands on a level with the Havana flower peddler, who sprays his roses with cheap synthetic perfume. K. DAHLBERG Coral Gables, Fla. Mention...
...battle of words. It is beyond my comprehension how people can get enjoyment out of a magazine that is so daring and does nothing but criticize the things that should receive encouragement. While your news items are interesting, they are written in such a way that they become cheap bits of gossip. Instead of calling your magazine TIME, I would suggest you call the paper Gossip. If I should read anything in your paper that would receive a kindly comment, I think I would drop dead. If you are contemplating giving anything a friendly and helpful comment...
...enjoy TIME when I ignore the cheap red border and the letters...
...shrewd ventilating systems to the classrooms of U. S. public schools. But the "art objects" on the walls have changed little since the days of slates and coal stoves. Pupils are still schooled among lithographs of George Washington crossing the Delaware, paintings of cows and baskets of fruit, cheap etchings of Longfellow and Lincoln...
...serpentine Cleopatra a naughty high school girl magnifying her most minute sins into heinous debauchery Anyone having entertained admiration for Shakespeare's Cleopatra whose person "beggar'd all description" will put aside "Cleopatra's Private Diary," the appetite cloyed, the effect being similar to that obtained by eating cheap chocolates...