Word: cheapness
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...Story. Mr. Winkelberg, a paunchy Dutch biped, sold cheap jewelry in Chicago. In the hairy bulb between Mr. Winkelberg's shoulders was accumulated a small mass of miscellaneous garbage which Mr. Winkelberg called his opinions, his beliefs, his reasons...
...International and its paltry 439,655 paid subscribers. Perhaps he himself is weary of cheap "human interest" articles in this particular portion of his vast press and feels he can best serve the Nation by concentrating on pure, unabashed fiction...
...stricken with typhoid. An Italian nurse restored her to health; and, for her services, Miss Johnstone presented to her, in addition to her ordinary fees, a necklace bought at an important jewelry shop. Correspondence between nurse and former patient brought out the fact that the jewelers had substituted a cheap necklace for the one purchased by Miss Johnstone; the latter, naturally becoming angry, wrote to the shop. Then, apparently, overcome by vexation, she wrote also to Mussolini-the Mussolini whose first name is Benito and whose title is Premier of all Italy. Premier Mussolini, whose whole time has been spent...
...operating on a 70% basis. Wheat futures continue to rise under shortage, while staple agricultural prices are high and firm. Many industries are patently turning the corner. Imports and exports of gold are both increasing, but despite large recent foreign loans floated here, domestic money remains abundant and cheap...
...woman with a drawl. She is the kind that ought to go suddenly into an Apache dance with the District Attorney and stab her way back to the underworld. Against a Bar Harbor background she jars perceptibly. Still that was the way the whole play went. It was a cheap conception by Cosmo Hamilton, probably having originally a sound satirical value. The latter was played out of it by a poor cast and burlesqued by a bad director...