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discount house

[dis-kount hous] / ˈdɪs kaʊnt ˌhaʊs /




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Mamie van Doren, with a kind of exactitude of casting, appears in a $39.98 dress covered with glittering beads for a Los Angeles discount house.

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The discount house is not a new idea.

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Polks, a large Chicago discount house, recently got a shipment of $49.95 record players that really had listed for that.

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There, crowds of customers were enthusiastically shopping in France's first discount house, with prices of refrigerators, toasters and all other goods cut a flat 20% under prices fixed by manufacturers and retailers.

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And so, just when their little world—kindly, malicious, censorious, as the case might be—was expecting to hear of their engagement, Godfrey Pavely suddenly left Pewsbury to spend a year in a great Paris discount house.

From Love and hatred by Lowndes, Marie Belloc




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