Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...last play, "Five in the Morning," by H. Hagedorn '07, is a tragedy of modern life in blank verse. the scene is laid in New York on East Twelfth street, and the characters include cheap clerks in the down-town department stores and a hack writer...
...used as a reason, whether true or false, for the United States keeping up large war expenditures. "Japan," he said, "lies in the East and does not interfere with America. Both are island powers, in the military sense, and as Burke says, 'should make use of the cheap defence of nations.' The competition of the Dreadnought sort cannot go on forever." The two nations should stand together and work for the disarmament of the powers...
Professor Moore closes his report with an earnest demonstration of the museum's need of funds. The valuable objects which are donated to the museum cannot be properly exhibited, and many chances for the cheap acquisition of valuable articles have been lost through lack of money. Additional space is also needed...
...CRIMSON will enjoy its annual merry-go-round with the Lampoons this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the second team diamond. At the last moment the cheap-wits have hired a slab-artist who has recently been drawing a salary from the Chelsea Sufferers' Relief Fund. He will be easy glue for the CRIMSON stickers, however...
...fiction is, as usual, of uneven merit. "The City of Hoggsville" and "Adin Ray Knight Errant" are slight, but distinctly amusing. "Room-mates" introduces a good situation, but the difficulty is not sufficiently explained by the subsequent appearance of a cheap and consumptive sister to the mysterious "mate." "A Hater of Pictures" is written, perhaps intentionally, in that racy style that one associates with tracts, but the denouement is cleverly concealed till the last sentence, and then it is so sudden that the it leaves the reader gasping...