Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...attacks on the national chairman have come almost entirely from Representative Fish, whose past record makes his charges look like an about face and cheap opportunism. Hamilton has more energy and organizing ability than any other recent chairman. His speeches were forceful, clear, and had the necessary punch to carry a point. Unless some dark horse, with superhuman ability, should make his appearance, the Republicans should be grateful for the aggressive leadership of John Hamilton...
Newhaven: Just as the cheap and therefore inconspicuous night boat from this port to France is about to sail, Mrs. Simpson arrives in the Buick the King gave her, accompanied by his bodyguard, a secretary and chauffeur. In a private cabin she tosses for four hours on a medium rough crossing. French police shoot her baggage through the customs unopened. The Buick roars away and at 3:30 a. m. it brings Mrs. Simpson to Rouen for the night. She telephones King Edward who has just had another night session with Mr. Baldwin, this time at the snuggery, from which...
...long been known as "Hell's Kitchen." At ten o'clock, just as the pair got back into their car, a youth jumped on the right running board, asked a tip for watching the car. Importer Gambinossi gave his companion a dime to hand him. "Cheap skate!" snarled the young man. Gambinossi got out. At once four other hoodlums jumped on him. All five gave him a severe beating. When he got away, he limped to the nearest police station...
...Tetovo, delinquent tenants had their house fired by Landlord Tefik Shazovich, lost all their belongings in the flames. Haled into court, Landlord Tefik Shazo-vich snapped: "The rent they owed me was just about equal to the price of their cheap furniture. We are quits...
...kookaburras and the duck-billed platypus -thrived until white men came. When Chile's supply of chinchilla began to run low, hunters and trappers swarmed out through the Australian bush, slaughtered koalas by tens of thousands, shipped their hides off to the U. S. to be made into cheap fur coats or women's bags, belts and shoes. After a time Australia declared a permanent closed season on koalas, but by then the little beast was almost extinct...