Word: cheapness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...singing at Saturday's game of the parody song to the tune of "Meow" that has been practiced at recent mass meetings. Harvard has plenty of good football songs which are the equal, if not better, than those of any other college; it does not need to resort to cheap words set to a popular tune to sing at its games. It is a pretty bad state of affairs when Harvard has to go to the dance halls to find a football song. If "Harvardians," "Soldiers Field," "The Gridiron King," and the "Marseillaise" will not be songs enough to sing...
...magazines, for cheap books, particularly for technical works in which tabulation is much used, the possibilities of the new process are unlimited. The exorbitant demands of the typesetters in New York has resulted in a great disaster to their trade...
...apparent to make their threat bear weight. It will doubtless amuse Cambridge to see its youngest periodical attempt to attract attention to itself by sticking out its small tongue at the CRIMSON; and we can hardly believe that the average undergraduate will sympathize with its attempts to establish a cheap and noisy paper which finds it all too easy to take an instantaneous and extreme attitude toward any new question...
...bill for the biggest victory in the history of the world,--a victory cheap at the price. Harvard's record in this war has been a glorious one, and certainly Harvard is not going to fall down on the job. I have absolute trust in the people of New England to do their share to complete the war, to finish the job, to consummate the victory, and bring the boys home...
Theodore Roosevelt has sounded the keynote of what should be every American's attitude in the war, when he declared recently that patriotic words are only worth while when they have as their basis patriotic actions. Speech is cheap. An insincere man can often utter as noble words as one of undoubted sincerity. High-sounding verbosity will never defeat Germany, nor will it go far toward arousing others of our nation to action. A single heroic death in France, the simple report, "Killed in action," is far more effective than the words of all the statesmen of America...