A serious book by David Graham Phillips, published serially in a popular monthly, is raided the moment it appears between covers; a trashy piece of nastiness by Elinor Glyn goes unmolested.
She's too loud in hats and too trashy in literature.
This girl of mine reads pretty trashy stuff, and she knows about all the cheap novels there are.
Further notice of these trashy recipes it is not my intention to take, as a list of them alone would make a volume;--they are in the hands of every one.
She was no longer young; she was thirty years old if a day; she was probably poor, disreputable, with nothing in the world but a trunk full of trashy finery, and no home but a cheap hotel.
Meanwhile he filled in the time reading trashy novels--anything to forget time and place, and lose self in poppy-dreams of nothingness.
The rest are of the popular and somewhat trashy kind; critics jeer at them, and the public buys them in large numbers.
Another odd circumstance is this: trashy little canes hawked by sidewalk venders generally appear with the advent of toy balloons for sale on days of big parades.
The one class of books was generally moral in tone, but trashy in its representations of real life; the other, religious in tone, but equally trashy in its presentations of pictures of what purported to be the life of boys and girls.
We find that these boys do not fall back to trashy reading, but ask for better reading in place of their old favorites.
The change in the character of children's books has been a great help to us, fairly crowding out many of the trashy stories so long the favorite reading.
The reader who can become interested only in light, trashy literature must admit that matter of this type ranks higher in his subjective scale of values than the works of the masters.
Trashy "ornaments" do not make a room more comfortable; as a general rule, they distinctly diminish its comfort; and they have the further disadvantage of destroying the effect of any good piece of work.
Last post I sent you a note fierce as Faliero himself[81], in answer to a trashy tourist, who pretends that he could have been introduced to me.
Those Industrial Exhibitions, I think, brought out a great deal of trashy sentimentality about universal brotherhood, peace, and the rest of it.
Hang me if I would not have paid down a thousand pounds to have been able to rattle out even some of those trashy commonplaces I have seen you scatter with such effect in the coulisses of the opera!
What though the words in which she spoke were borrowed from the trashy novels she was always reading--they were true enough for all that.
Presently Mabel buried herself in the trashy novel and with many thrills over the foolish and impossible adventures of the Lady Ermintrude forgot everything but her book.
She could not eat anything; she could not read, although a nice trashy novel invited her.
As expected, the Guide found trashy paper novels inside and a note from Eleanor's mother.
Never sparing a thought as to the ultimate effects of trashy books and ignoring the outcome of deteriorating sensations in the young because they are so anxious to add to a savings account for the future!
My soul longs for breadth and altitude, but I am forced to lead a narrow life spent over trashy roubles and kopecks.
But criticism maintains a dignified silence or gets out of it with idle trashy babble.
Mrs. Smith mentioned the name of a well-known writer of trashy fiction and added, "Didn't you never read none of her books?
Go off, boy, how I gwine make desetrashy creeturs vote fur high tone fokes like yo' pa an' Mist'r Race Hoss?
You only get your ideas of it from trashy novels and matinees.
