Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...fingered his head when he beheld the Disassembled Man. Fastened to a tall, black board, like memoranda on a bulletin board, are the 206 disjointed bones of an adult. One could actually see what one has been taught but scarcely believes, that the head is made up of a lower jaw and 21 other bones. (The 21 are fused together at zigzag joints to make the firm though perforated flask of the brain...
...list, all Doubleday, Doran titles will be published at approximately one-half of current retail prices. Popular fiction will sell for $1 a copy, including the books of the Doubleday, Doran subsidiary The Crime Club, Inc. Books now commonly selling at higher prices will be sold at correspondingly lower prices...
Coward-McCann, to overcome the prejudice of bookbuyers against the works of unknown authors, will issue first novels at $1.50 instead of $2 or $2.50 as heretofore. (But the lower price may well discourage new authors, since more copies of their books must be sold in order to justify publication...
...doing and because of his superb skill at singing the "intimate" type of revue ballad. The story is about a Frenchman who makes his mark in the chewing-gum business so as to win a U. S. millionaire's daughter?Claudette Colbert. With the plot keyed a little lower and a chorus thrown in The Big Pond could easily have been turned into a musical comedy. As it stands it is good program entertainment, but not adequate for Chevalier's talents. Best song: "You Brought a New Kind of Love...
...class of magazine readers; it has lead to a false sense of value with regard to a lot of stuff which sells for over $2.00 and is actually worth practically nothing. And finally it has kept books from a great many people who would be ready buyers at lower prices...