Word: cheapness
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There is no sound motivation in "Elizabeth the Queen" and little attempt to develop a strikingly dramatic situation. Instead the author resorted to rather cheap heroics and shoddy situations to carry the power. The last scene, for carry the power. The last scene, for example, where Elizabeth decides that England means more to her than the life of her lover has real dramatic strength and poignancy. But the drama dwindles off into labored phrases and district hysteria; not the kind of situation one usually associates with Elizabethan gestures...
While their constituents prayed in church for presidential approval, southern Senators and Representatives flocked to the White House to ask President Hoover to sign the bill. He was reminded that he had approved Boulder Dam Act which called for Government power production and its cheap sale to his own California. To his attention was called the fact that he had helped put the U. S. Bureau of Mines into the production of helium, thereby putting a private industry out of business...
...World as a liberal, "middle ground" newspaper has been choked off between the rank, weedlike under growth of the tabloids, and the shading branches of the "ultraconservative" papers, the Times and Herald Tribune and evening Sun over-head.* To one group the World lost sensation-loving readers, cheap , advertising; to the other, high class advertising and readers...
...wishes, he will do extra, intensive work. "What we are planning for the Yale of the future," said Professor French, "is not a system, but a life." Of the men who will be leaders in this life, he says: "We are not looking for the sort . . . who courts cheap popularity with his students, nor for the man who will conceive of his position either as that of Captain of the Boy Scouts or as that of a genial host at a protracted house party." He will wield a "civilizing influence." But ultimate authority will rest, as it has heretofore...
Room rents in Conant and Perkins are as cheap as those in any other dormitories within the University, and the new arrangement is designed to give the poor student, who is unaided by part-time teaching, the benefit of these low room prices...