Word: cheapness
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When I returned from France, after twenty-two months overseas, I came upon an orgy of profiteering that made the French, whom I had considered the original profiteers, seem mild. The sixty dollar bonus which the Magnanimous Congress allowed me hardly sufficed to pay for a cheap suit of clothes. When I tried to obtain work I found the exempted were holding the good positions. I had to be satisfied with what they did not want. And now, because I, with my former comrades, ask justice, I am mercenary...
...against them; there is commercial conflict to be reckoned with; and most important of all, by a systematic "education" through the medium of newspapers and motion pictures, an utterly false impression about each other is cultivated in the two peoples. At home, we are fed upon the sensationalism of cheap dailies and periodicals and anti-Asiatic films; those who have investigated conditions in Japan report the same situation there. Propaganda in one form or another is an incalculably powerful weapon; and when it fosters misunderstanding of the character, the aims, or the common sympathies of two distinct races...
...voting as it did. Without the consistent aid and startling publicity afforded the Irish question by some of our daily journals, especially those owned by William Randolph Hearst, the cause of Ireland in America would have died a natural death. But as the case stands, these journals by their cheap sensational appeal to an impulsive and easily influenced class of people, have encouraged Irish sympathizers to acts and attitudes which amount to a moral disloyalty...
...Advocate has always been in a difficult position. On the one hand it has striven desperately not to be "collegiate"; on the other it has faced the danger of becoming dry and academic. As Mr. Allen says--the Advocate has never been cheap. But in avoiding Scylla it has approached dangerously near Charybdis...
...reviewer wonders as he puts down the Advocate why it is that college literary magazines, if they are not cheap,--and the Advocate is never cheap,--tend to be pale and bloodless things, useful for the purpose of enabling their writers to see their work in print, but of little general interest to the college commu- nity. Isn't it possible that this is because most of the contributions to college literary magazines are written, not to entertain the undergraduates and their friends, but to meet the requirements of some course in English Composition, and are subsequently turned over...