Word: cheapness
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...naive ditties, displayed a fondnes for music which, they were keenly conscious, has never been recognized with a directorate in any company whatever. They definitely doubted that a pair of lounging millionaires were any more musicianly than they. It takes a considerable body of evidence to convince a cheap fellow that sons of wealth may also be men of parts...
...several years, Harvey S. Firestone, famed tiremaker, warned his countrymen of the dangers of a British rubber monopoly. Herbert C. Hoover took up the cry. But the public remained calm, and indifferent. Tires were still dirt-cheap, and Mr. Firestone's fulminations seemed visionary...
...years ago, was born in Indiana as a Seventh Day Adventist and christened Arthur. He became a minister of the Disciples of Christ, but left the pulpit. He failed in this business and in that business. In 1916, he founded a wholesale tailoring establishment at Cincinnati, manufacturing cheap suits and overcoats. In 1919, he announced that he would run his business on a "Golden Rule" plan. His employes grew in number from 29 to 6,000; his business grew from $132,000 to $7,000,000 turnover. It began to pay large cash dividends. It issued successive stock dividends...
...FALL GUY?Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step...
Capt. Billy's Whiz Bang alternates between the urbane pleasantries of high-school debauches and the vicious smut of discontented sheepherders: Fly-speckled jokes, limaceous verses, epigrams as forlornly disorderly as the cigar ashes left behind the curtain of a cheap hotel room by its last occupant. La Vie Parisienne presents pornography that often cannot be understood without a modicum of sophistication or an understanding of the more bizarre manifestations of the sexual impulse ; its drawings are occasionally clever. In these respects, it is superior to competitors. English translations, however, accompany the more salacious jocosities, and these invariably emasculate...