Word: cheapness
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...hardly proportionate to the amount of time given it. Miss Standing was not quite successful in leaping the obstacle mentioned at the start of this article, and though the mechanics of her acting were effect, her personality was ill-suited to the portrayal of a daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left us in doubt as to her true nationality, and her usual grace and charm could not effectively be forced into the awkward mold required of the true Miss Woofers. As Lady Leicester, Miss Standing would have been superb, but as Miss Woofers...
...cheap yet powerful intoxicant mado from the juice of the maguey plant...
...preponderance of space devoted to college football in the newspapers. The doings of professional football teams may, in the future, come so to fill the public eye as to remedy a large part of this evil. The custom of picking All-American teams is the last stage of that cheap aggrandizement through newspaper publicity which tends to create in students' minds a false sense of values. The CRIMSON, therefore, has discontinued this year its old custom of picking an All-Stadium team. The CRIMSON also deplores the habit of sporting writers to make college players the butt of their gibes...
...simple: They did not believe she could pay more. Her soil is not fertile enough to give Italy a big export surplus of agricultural products. She has very little in the way of natural resources. She has very high taxes and few wealthy people. All she has is cheap labor, and cheap laborers are very poor people from whom to raise taxes...
...through a period during which I was literally crammed with advice. Almost every speaker began with "I know that you are just full of advice" and ended by giving us still more advice. Each piece of advice, if taken singly, was valuable. It was the quantity which made it cheap...