Word: footless
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...those footless cases which a dash of sex appeal and a tang of alcohol make so palatable for the public?a typical Broadway morsel?that was dished up last week in a Federal court in Manhattan. The protagonists were the Government (in the person of U. S. District Attorney Emory R. Buckner) and Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some...
...Play. The chairman at the next session called the roll of the states and found that one and all were fondly familiar with The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, The Iron Woman and Old Chester Tales, whose author, Mrs. Margaret Deland, then took the platform to declare that fiction is footless unless founded in fact...
...courses. In these courses it is customary to devote half of one hour each week to a short paper on the assignment of reading and to spend the remainder of the time in discussion. Such discussion, if properly conducted, might well be profitable, but unfortunately it is often absolutely footless--a mere matter of form, and time thrown away. Obviously enough one question to be answered in twenty minutes can not always be a fair test of a hundred or more pages of scattered reading. Would it not be better, since the outlay for competent assistants is necessarily limited, either...
Flora, foolish, but not footless, R. L. Scaife...
Fauna, foolish, but not footless, H. B. Fenno...