Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...FRAUD AND DECEIT" is charged by SEC against Reynolds & Co., one of biggest brokerage houses. Chief charge in hearings opening this week: a few Reynolds employees in California touted cheap mining stocks that later slumped. Reynolds expresses "surprise and shock" at case; the men under fire are no longer with firm...
...cleavage betwen 'popular' and 'serious' music, a cleavage unknown in earlier times." But the editor's revulsion could not be long held in check: "A certain kind of popular music is nowadays inevitably associated with the fetid atmosphere of a nightclub, dance hall or cabaret and its emphasis on cheap, moronic sexual allurement. But the service of the Holy Communion is, surely, something far removed from the idea of 'revelry by night...
...Paul Grindle, whose Ealing Corp. sells foreign educational equipment to the U.S. market. Grindle saw some of the machines on the cover of a Russian physics magazine, went to Moscow and began negotiations. The gadgets are good, says Grindle, because they are designed by clever engineers specifically for teaching, cheap because they are already in mass production for Russian schools...
Caviar, pheasant and brandy were a cheap feast for the valuable service Senator Humphrey rendered to Khrushchev by conveying eight hours' propaganda, boasts and threats to the U.S. and the world...
...smiling through our tears, or vice versa, for in the Nov. 24 cinema review of I Want to Live, you say: "To judge from the . . . dragsville dialogue that Krylon-sprays the whole film with a cheap glaze of don't-care-if-I-do-die juvenility, Producer Walter Wanger seems ... to provide the morbid market with a sure-enough gasser." We are pleased indeed that "Krylon spray" is so well known that its name is used to describe a spraying process. But then we read on to a "cheap glaze," and we become unpleased in a hurry! Krylon...