catch-penny

You cannot free your brother's spirit by half-baked 'progressive' catchwords or pious indoctrinations — no matter how well-intentioned — slipped into routine catch-penny thrillers and romances, written down to 'the morons.'

Caught in the Crossfire: Adrian Scott and the Politics of Americanism in 1940s Hollywood 2007

It is a catch-penny publication, bearing in front the effigy of a species of ogre, with a beard of a foot in length; and his actions are as much exaggerated as his personal appearance.

Rob Roy 2005

But the so called fashionable novel is most often the composition of adventurers whose catch-penny productions aim at affording, to the middle or lower ranks, information concerning the habits of the aristocracy.

A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

If anything is published that is not a mere catch-penny, as it is called, I shall send it directly.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

For some years past they have not been advertised in newspapers, they being filled with sensational advertisements of quack nostrums got up for no other purpose than catch-penny articles ...

History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills Robert B. Shaw

And from this time henceforth I shall learn to prize my own language, and not be carried away by any catch-penny Scotch synonyms, such as the _lift_ for the sky, and the _gloamin_ for twilight.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

The main thoroughfare in this part of the town where Hiram boarded was brightly lighted, gaudy electric signs attracting notice to cheap picture shows, catch-penny arcades, cheap jewelry stores, and the ever present saloons and pool rooms.

Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd

We have not space to follow this out farther, and only add, that, were this work a mere catch-penny affair by an unknown writer, we should suspect him of

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 Various

If Mr. Foster's art embodied no higher idea than the vulgar notion of the negro as a man-monkey, -- a thing of tricks and antics, -- a funny specimen of superior gorilla, -- then it might have proved a tolerable catch-penny affair, and commanded an admiration among boys of various growths until its novelty wore off.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

Dr. Spaight, “is more valuable than the catch-penny stories of British inhumanity which flooded the Press of Europe at the time of the war.”

The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship