Word: dears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times-a small group of men assembled in Philadelphia were creating a new republic in the western world which, in point of potential power. . . ." The remainder of the volume's 205 pages is devoted to a learned account of how the Constitution has been progressively undermined, a thesis dear to those who like it, hateful to those...
Selling cheap and advertising dear is the standard formula for making big money out of cigarets. The big Three-Camel, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike-wholesale for $6.10 per 1,000, of which $3 is Federal tax. Because they cannot afford to lose their mass markets they must pour many more millions into advertising than less popular brands. And because each of them sells upwards of 30 billion cigarets a year, they can afford...
...DEAR LIFE-Belinda Jelliffe-Scribner...
...mystery. The stories concerning them are usually grim, sometimes Rabelaisian, seldom sensible. Last week the sensible, matter-of-fact autobiographical chronicle of a onetime nurse gave a good, clear picture of the day-to-day work and training involved. Written by the wife of Psychiatrist Smith Ely Jelliffe, For Dear Life is an unpretentious book, makes up in honesty what it lacks in literary finish...
Since corn is the staple hog diet, "corn on the hoof" (i.e., hogs) last week rose too. Headlines read: RETURN OF THE $12 HOG. As corn passed wheat, it became too dear to feed hogs, whose diet was thereupon switched to wheat, which is a better meat-builder, anyway...