Word: bargain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will not suffer us to bargain...
...Lane production for 50 years. The audience told him to sit down; he refused. "I'm so sorry," he continued, "that this beautiful play is to stop that I'll guarantee its run for two more weeks. But being a Scotsman, I'll drive a hard bargain with the management-all profits must go to theatrical charity." The speaker was Samuel Greenlees, millionaire. Indescribable enthusiasm greeted his speech, which was soon disciplined into one mighty song, For He's A Jolly Good Fellow, followed by Auld Lang Syne...
...Haldeman-Julius is an American of the Americans. He believes in quantity production, dominant advertising, bargain-sales, small individual profit but big turnover and all the rest of it. He has adapted the methods of Ford to the business of publishing...
...sale. In this country the Heart papers cost three cents. The New Tork Times costs two cents. Mr. Hearst's readers wouldn't buy The Times if it cost only a penny. And readers of the Times wouldn't buy the Hearst papers at any bargain...
...have worked four years on the play. With the decline of the New York theatrical season has come an increase in the use of the "twofer" system by managers who are not yet quite ready to send their attractions to the storehouse and would rather have them play at bargain rates than close them. The " twofers " are two-for-ones-two tickets to the same production offered at the price...