Word: cheapness
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...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...
...expense attached to immorality. The point is made by displaying a man and a woman in residence without benefit of clergy. The man finally pulls a gun on himself. Side by side with this fable is, of course, the happily married pair, living thus ever after. As a cheap melodrama, the film is not bad; as a criticism of the current social system, it is grotesque...
...whisky; for, in spite of large dividends, the distillers have complained bitterly of their small profits on home-consumed whisky. At present, whisky, with its heavy excise duty, costs in the British Isles about $3 a bottle, while on the Continent it is possible to buy it as cheap...
...January progresses, perhaps the most significant general occurrence in the business world is the continued ease of money. While this is natural at this time of year, yet the prospect of plenty of cheap funds is cheering to everyone except possibly the Federal Reserve Banks, which are at present frequently not earning their dividends. Credit 'extended by the Reserve to member banks at this time last year amounted to $541,000,000; now it is only $203,000,000 having fallen $93,000,000 since...
...cheap little chap who stole $50,000 by mistake...