Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million into 67, and in her last days was a strange old body in odd cloaks and shawls who lived in cheap flats with a Skye terrier named Dewey...
...Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They found it exuberant, direct, its testimonies as heartfelt as those heard in oldtime Bowery missions, only here the witnesses were young people of culture and refinement? college students, city preachers, businessmen, a polo player, a Junior Leaguer?a group which no cheap or sexy revivalism could have...
Price, then, is the first baffling element in the wheat problem: How can one sell at all without selling cheap? How can one sell cheap without dumping? How can one dump without cruelty...
...sort of thing. And even among the most talked-of companies, the so-called big companies. ... I am not going to mention names of all of the companies in this room that have cut wages; I do not want to embarrass them; but I think it is a pretty cheap sort of business...
...Great Britain on his South American tour (TIME, Jan. 26, et seq.), made two speeches, one in Manchester and one in London last week, both to bigwigs. His advice, painful to British ears but received with loyal cheers, may be summed up in eight words: Be bright, be cheap, be American or German...