Word: cheapness
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...wrong." At least I do admit than I am sometimes wrong. For it was only last Saturday that I was converted to Methodism by a lady who did so want me to get the "good things" at Harvard. And any religion which will help toward a cheap and sudden attainment of the "Good things" is immediately mine. Though at heart I remain a Baptist on the hard shell a Vermont Baptist deo volente...
Promptly Pat Harrison of Mississippi rose in the Senate to criticize. The President's move was so unexpected that Democrat Harrison was forced to extemporize a trifle uncertainly. First he heavily satirized the appointment as being cheap politics; it was designed, said he, solely to remove Mr. Thompson from Ohio politics where there are several Republican candidates for Governor. Satire having failed to produce heat, the Senator intimated that Mr. Thompson might be inclined to interest himself in the exploitation of the island (rubber, etc.) rather than in the welfare of the islanders. Here Senator Moses of New Hampshire quietly...
...League without admitting Germany. "One thing the German delegation achieved was that, in all the discussion about where the blame for failure lay, nobody blamed Germany. I know how many telegrams advising us to leave Geneva were sent from home. I think we might have harvested very cheap laurels by coming home. But by remaining we won recognition of our blamelessness...
...agreement recently placed before it by the officials of the Radio Corporation of America the volume of news carried will almost certainly double many times. Since one of the chief obstacles to U. S.-Japanese accord has been the lack of mutual understanding fostered by the absence of cheap and-rapid intercommunication, the progress of this development is eagerly awaited...
...cheap, silly stuff like this (a clipping referring to the recent egg-eating record established in Harvard Square is enclosed Ed Note), that is making Harvard more and more a joke. The student involved being a Senior increases the offense. No true Harvard man (and I include members of the various teams, crews, etc., etc.) will go out of his way an inch to gain even excusable publicity that is individual personal publicity...