Word: slash
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...announcement by the largest book publisher in the country of its intention to slash the prices of popular books from $2.50 and $2.00 to $1.00 is likely to lead to a considerable upset in the industry in general. By some it is interpreted as a temporary strategic move on the part of the publisher in question to drive into the ground the large amount of competition from small firms which has grown up under the protective wing of monopoly prices. Still others think the change once adopted will be permanent. Book publishing has the character of a monopoly industry...
...staunch supporters of Will Rogers who desired a humorist in the White House are beginning to perk up. Only a few months ago the Chief Executive also headlined the Fourth Estate with the fervent desire that the London Naval Conference would bring about "a definite slash in armaments," not merely a limitation treaty. The Washington Wit scores not so much in this amusing reversal of form as in the revelation that both of these Spectacles for the People were after all, only "mimic Games"; one a peace-puzzle of comic sections and the other a panorama of toy ships...
...capita of any people on earth. Just now France is doing so well that last week she was able to pay back ahead of time $75,000,000 borrowed from Swedes. While Mr. Snowden is forced to raise British taxes, M. Reynaud was able to make last-week a slash of more than $75,000,000. Much of this cut will directly benefit U. S. tourists. The de luxe hotel taxes have been deeply cut, the tax on purchases of luxury articles has been halved, no longer will the "nuisance" tax for landing and embarking be added to steamship ticket...
More birdies for golf links urged at Cornell. . . . Kills self in hut shared by goat. . . . Mosquito wins flight honors. . . . Woman publishes newspaper. . . . Asks $10,000 for Barber's slash. . . . Has taught school for 67 years. . . . Kentucky grandmother jailed for bootlegging...
...Vagabond King (Paramount). Francois Villon was a lean, bony, shrivelled man, with a sharp dark face and an upper lip pulled into permanent irony by a dagger slash he got one night outside the church of St. Benoit-le-Bientourne. He made an indifferent living in the Paris underworld of the 15th Century, and there is evidence that he served several jail terms, committed at least one murder, suffered from venereal disease, and wrote, in underworld slang, the best French verse of his time. Not much of what scholars have found out about the real Villon is preserved in this...