Word: cheapness
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...innkeeper bustled up and filled a glass. The bridegroom offered him a cheap cigar. With commendable presence of mind, the King lit it. The wedding party whispered and grinned inanely. The King's aide hovered in the background...
...late holy war at Dayton, Tenn., gave occasion for a great host of fakirs, professional prophets and pseudo-scientific potboilers to flood the land with cheap literature for and against Evolution. The end of the aftermath is not yet. Even the Bible-sellers have felt the boom and prepared popular editions of that much-feared-for book. But if any new Evolution text for laity should be absolved of the Dayton imprimatur it is the present volume. Mr. Ward, lately a teacher at the Taft School, lives in New Haven, Conn., where he is an imtimate of Professors Woodruff, Keller...
There has been no development in the money situation to call for extensive security liquidation. Stock-market funds continue abundant and cheap. Likewise, stock brokers report customers' margins greater than at almost any other time in the recent history of Wall Street. From these facts, "market diagnosticians"-as they sometimes call themselves-generally consider the recent decline a reaction in a "bull" market rather than the inauguration of a "bear" market...
From such a second-rate and cheap conception little of merit could survive. There were various bright lines and a fair amount of acting. People will go to see Ruth Gordon rather than The Fall...
...been customary to consider Henry Ford as indifferent to beauty, and interested only in the more practical aspects of affairs. For many years the aesthetic qualities of his product have been jeered at by the multitude. Mr. Ford reprinted the jeers as an effective and cheap form of advertising. Now, however, a change has apparently come over the Detroiter. His leisure he spends in reviving old-fashioned dances and music. The rising aesthetic impulse has finally led him to revamp the new model of his cars with the idea of making them more seemly to the eye. Last week...