discount house

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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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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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In the process, the distinction between a discount house and a department store is getting harder to tell without a scorecard.

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What really drives the stores to distraction is the customer who tries to return a gift bought from a competitor or at a reduced price in a discount house.

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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