Word: cheapness
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...marriage persist. They must have a box office value, but it is the impression of many people that pictures of gilded vice and of marriages that do not jell are chiefly responsible for the low esteem in which the Cinema is held by many sensible folk?so grotesque, so cheap, so shriekingly impossible are the Hollywood conceptions of these same sensible people in domestic difficulties. In this case one wife could cook and was cold; the other had an overabundance of feelings but no craft at biscuit-baking. Their husbands exchanged. Then nobody was happy...
Applesauce. Chicago approved this play mightily last season, and the earliest spectators were hopeful. They were sharply set down. It turned out to be an unskilful echo of The Show-Off, well played but cheap and dreary...
Another trend in the industry even more striking is the general slashing of prices to gain quantity production. Ford cars have now become so cheap that Henry Ford is beginning to feel the competition. Practically since 1908 Ford kept his famous Model "T" unchanged, and at a cost far below other makers. Since the war, about 48% of cars sold in this country have been Fords. But during the past year, Fords constituted only 42% of cars sold. This accounts for Ford's sudden effort to make his famous vehicle a thing of beauty...
...glut of cheap potatoes, one recourse is always open to growers to prevent spoilage-to sell to the starch factories. Certain starch factories open only when potato prices are low, and on rising prices promptly close. Last year 6,500 carloads of potatoes went into starch, but high-potato prices this year will presumably leave starch-makers none at all. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is not worrying. Potato farmers in Maine are profiting under present high prices, even though output is lower. When they start spending the proceeds, the Aroostook expects very good inbound freight...
...Never," said an eminent professor of English composition in recommending Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch's famous essay denouncing jargon. "Never has cheap English been more cleverly shown...