Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might have married her, but Ray was not that kind. Instead she starved herself to send money to an impoverished niece, and tried to make ends meet by playing the races. She got to be a well-known figure at the tracks but made no killing. Retired to a cheap French pension she outlived her poodle Babe, but not for long. The Author. Hearty Fannie Hurst (Mrs. Jacques S. Danielson) loves words like "thigh" and "sausage." Born in Hamilton, Ohio (near Cincinnati) 41 years ago, she grew up in St. Louis, now lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted...
Rosa Helen Ricchebuono, French-Canadian sister of a nun and two Catholic priests, lived obscurely with her hard-working husband Bernard in a cheap flat on Manhattan's dark, noisy Third Avenue, near 43rd Street. When Bernard would go out evenings to solicit insurance, big, broad-faced Rosa would wave a loving farewell to him from the window. One stifling summer night last year Bernard had gone out and Rosa, after a bath, was puttering about her kitchen in a loose gown. Through the open door strode a great, bullish...
...million lei is roughly $12,000. At this price the funeral was dirt cheap- consisting as it did of three special railway trains with dining cars attached and an entire series of funeral services, one at each city en route with final honors at Bucharest...
...village officials-mayor, judge, postmaster, et al.-were ready with servile bribes. Facile young Romney Brent made an almost too convincing pipsqueak; pretty Dorothy Gish's part (her second off the screen) was only a small one-the naïve daughter of the braggart mayor and his cheap wife. The total effect of the cast was better than any of its parts-a gallery of wretched pantaloons topped off just before the last curtain by the towering, sinister figure of the real inspector general. A few hours before the opening performance, 325-lb. Actor Julian Winter, 39, fought...
...recent paragraph titled "Cheap Light" (TIME, Dec. 1) you, unwittingly of course, committed an injustice against our product: Lyter-life-a synthetic, emulsified fuel for lighters. You assert, apropos of a German-made product, that similar fuels "have not been wholly successful in the U. S." This statement is, however, definitely belied by our ascending sales curve on Lyterlife...