Word: cheap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ababa crowd, who had supposed the North Front crowd were "riding around in Italian limousines and bathing in chianti," discovered with surprise on reaching civilization that it was themselves who physically and mentally suffered least. Dictator Mussolini, with the tendency of a onetime editor to hold reporters' lives cheap, let the boys on Italy's front get thoroughly Ethiopia-shocked...
...arose that Manhattan should have a museum comparable to the Luxembourg in Paris that could buy and exhibit modern paintings, not with the idea of preserving eternal masterpieces for the ages, but so that the public could see what living artists were producing. As with the Luxembourg, masterpieces, bought cheap, might later be passed on to the historic museums, like the Louvre or the Metropolitan, when time had verified them. Besides Mrs. Rockefeller, founders of the Museum of Modern Art included Miss Bliss, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, A. Conger Goodyear, Editor Frank Crowninshield, Paul J. Sachs of Harvard...
...common soldier's wench who was handed up to a crack Swedish dragoon, to a marshal, to a prince and finally to Peter the Great, whose death left her on the Throne a reigning sovereign. From China last week arrived tidings almost as romantic. Years ago a cheap Chinese photographer had a certain young Chinese woman as handy girl around his studio. Buyers of obscene postcards were attracted by her looks. She was passed up to Mr. Henry Pu Yi and on to the Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang who then ruled Manchuria. Meanwhile she was fast becoming famed...
...trip which Trans-Pacific, Tokyo English-language newspaper, reported as follows: "Attacks by the Hearst papers were largely responsible for the great success of the trade mission. . . . The mission returned to Yokohama last week on the President Lincoln with the statement that Hearst papers continually criticized Japanese goods as cheap and shoddy. But the people of the United States apparently wanted cheap goods and the [Hearst] campaign against them resulted in a tremendous volume of inquiries. The attacks were exceedingly valuable publicity, which the mission could not possibly have bought for itself." Currently receiving "exceedingly valuable publicity" which they could...
...about to 24 billion a year, just about half the present income. It would cheapen our money, so that in a year's time the $200 a month would pay just about $30 rent and eventually the money wouldn't be worth anything. If we could get security that cheap, we would have had it ages...