Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author's have taken a perfect segment of life in their selection. There is Dan Packard, the unscrupulous business man, self-made, of course, who continually remains the audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving...
...problem was solved by ordering the British Minister at Addis Ababa to tell Emperor Haile Selassie orally what may happen if His Majesty is unwilling or unable to stop slave raiding into Kenya. To prepare the British public for what may happen, loyal London papers called bombing "the only cheap and effective method of pursuing the marauders," declared that against natives "one bomber is worth 35,000 troops...
...sober manager of sales & distribution analysis for Borden Co. (dairy products), was elected president of Association of National Advertisers at its convention in Atlantic City. Convention keynotes: 35% of members will increase advertising next year, 22% will reduce it; quality of circulation is more important to advertisers than quantity; cheap, misleading advertising hurts all advertising...
...invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp which saves U. S. users of electricity, according to estimates. $1.000,000 a night. The same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes. To do this he was obliged to design a new powerful mercury pump. Result is cheap, highly efficient vacuum tubes for radio, and long distance telephony. Another result was Dr. Coolidge's perfection of dependable x-ray tubes and his design of tandem x-ray', tubes whose radiation is almost as powerful as radium's gamma rays. (Manhattan's Memorial Hospital...
...colour, or of a black, a keen, or an olive colour." Freshmen were required to wear coats with plain button holes, and the cuffs could not have any buttons. The second-year men, however, were allowed the privilege of buttons on their cuffs. The coats of the Juniors had "Cheap frogs to the button holes, except the button holes of the cuffs," whereas the Seniors could have "frogs" on all their buttonholes...