Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neville Chamberlain tried to look like a statesman-imperturbable-but inwardly he was rubbing his hands; he was sure that he had avoided a war which would have been bad business, had got gracefully out of an embarrassing moral obligation to the Czechs, had thrown a cheap sop that would convert a troublesome fellow into a reasonable man with whom Chamberlain could henceforth make profitable connections in this best of all possible worlds...
...Ithacans started off with a cheap counter in the second canto when Scholl got life as Fred Keyes uncorked a wild heave to Lupien on the Cornell third sacker's bounder to short. Scholl went to second on the play and came all the way home while Healey was fumbling Matuszezak's bunt...
...candidate for President, Jim Farley has one big liability: to the U. S. he is the personification of patronage and cheap politics in the New Deal. He has also one great asset: his personal hold on the party machinery, seven years of camaraderie with the politicians who will control votes in the next Democratic convention...
Slim Curtiss started his second game of the year and had the Huskies hand cuffed until the big sixth inning when five bits and four runs sent him to the showers. Most of the blows, however, were of the cheap variety, and the Badmen fielded in a rather half-hearted fashion behind him. Charley Brackett came in and set down the visitors with but one hit in three and one third innings...
Representing the Bat'a family in the U. S. is 24-year-old Thomas Bat'a Jr. At his father's funeral, all Bat'a employes vowed "in the presence of our dead chief to uphold his ideals: service to customers through cheap shoe production and service to fellow workers through high wages." Thomas Jr., then aged 18, laid on the bier a bunch of white roses inscribed: "I promise. Tommy...