Word: cheapness
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...This truly begins a new day for Chicago. . . . The bums and hoodlums who hang around in the corridors and make the City Hall look like a cheap lodging house on Saturday night are going to be swept right...
...Davis Cup teams; towheaded, 19-year-old Sidney B. Wood Jr.; strong, swart Francis X. Shields, 20. J. B. Adoue Jr. is the non-playing captain. He was picked because he is an experienced player and because he lives in Dallas, Tex., so that it will be easy and cheap for him to get to Mexico. National Champion John Doeg was not picked because he announced that he could not take time off from business (advertising) to play in Davis Cup matches this year...
...Great Man is a cheap show about a pirate (Walter Woolf) who kills, conquers and seduces with equal good humor. In one of the towns he raids, the Governor's wife plans to protect her virtue by making herself ugly, sacrificing her unmarried niece. When the Governor's wife discovers what a handsome fellow Mr. Woolf is, she abandons her disguise. But by this time the niece is unwilling to give up the buccaneer, makes him marry her. Mr. Woolf, blustering about with hair on his chest, is embarrassingly exhibitionistic...
...wound by seeking an injunction against proration in the field. Often Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair has been accused of leading the price-cutting. Last week his house-organ, the Sinclair Reflector, asked "Who Killed Cock Robin?" and answered that the big oil companies did it by bootlegging oil at cheap prices. "Sinclair did not stoop to subterfuge or practice evasion," said the Reflector...
...shaky, timid Negro, the other a slow-footed, lumbering white man with a scarred face and a flat nose. In the first round, the Negro fell without being hit, then, in the second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan sport pages, much discussed by prizefight enthusiasts. This was because the winner was Paul Berlenbach. onetime (1925-26) light heavyweight champion of the world. As many has-beens have done before...