Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is your chance for a good cheap weekend. Pay $3.50 for a couple ticket to the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Hotel Somerset; invite a beautiful girl in a blue or red dress and let her win two tickets to the game for you; and then win two seats for the Saturday night production of "DuBarry was a Lady...
...truck with newfangled sandbags and gum-papered windows, Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, 91, eldest living daughter of Queen Victoria, stuck to her 98-room Kensington Palace apartment in air-vulnerable London. Once known as the "Royal Rebel" for marrying against her mother's wishes, for smoking cheap gaspers, for many another unregal trick, she condescended to such precautions as dark blue window-blinds, an underground tunnel near the kitchen...
Said Monologuist Cornelia Otis Skinner, interviewed in New Orleans: "Hollywood is cheap, it's tawdry, it's wicked. The people in power are so horrible that my friends, men and women who speak my language, are miserably unhappy there...
Instead of getting the order, "Firm B" was told by a Government official, "you are 50% too cheap!", the specifications were slightly altered, and "Firm B" then bid ?148 ($592), but the order finally went to "Firm A" at ?180 ($720). To newshawks Gadfly Stokes swore that he was in the room when "Firm B" received the alleged telephone call, hinted that he believed "Firm A" is a Nuffield subsidiary. In the House of Commons he shouted: "I'd like to wring the necks of the armaments firms in the ring...
...firm bought ten more ships, sometimes had as many as 50 more under charter and Government allotment. At war's end it sold the Moormack for $400,000, later snapped up the Government's offer to take its huge merchant marine off its hands at dirt cheap prices of $10 to $15 a deadweight ton. The advent of World War II found Moore-McCormack big and respectable (capital: $5,000,000), in hock to the Government and worried over what to do with the surplus ships that the provisions of the Neutrality Bill may take out of service...