Word: needless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems that the earthly informants know more than the Principle News-Maker, God, who so far has not 'tipped' us when our earthly days are nearing an end. Needless to say, we are ready for any tip or official news...
...minutes late for an examination suffers accordingly, professors have been known to be late with impunity. Members of the publishing department recall having seen many a professor on the morning of a 9:15 o'clock examination arrive on the run at ten minutes past the hour. Needless to say the recounting of papers under such conditions is usually omitted...
...Needless to say, "The Lives of Talleyrand" is a defense of that shrewd man who managed to slip out from under five successive decaying governments before they fell and keep his political power at an almost constant zenith. Crane Brinton does not attempt to picture Talleyrand as a "good" man in the ethical sense of the word; but he insists that he is just as "good" a man as those parliamentarians of the French Revolution who asserted that all men are free and equal, and then promptly turned around to draw up a constitution that heavily restricted the franchise...
...stations be equipped as first-aid stations for highway accidents (TIME, Nov. 9), is surgery of the brain and spinal cord. To Neurosurgeon Stookey has come many a case of paralysis rendered incurable by ignorant handling of the patient at the scene of the accident. Hoping to prevent such needless damage. Dr. Stookey this week issued new pictures (see cuts) and advice which first-aid manuals, including that of the Boy Scouts, lack...
...hired corespondent at an English hotel, the staff of which are familiar with their jobs. When the wife brings the suit for divorce, hotelmen testify that the husband and the corespondent spent the night together in the same room and were registered on the blotter as man & wife. Needless to say, in such sordid circumstances any actual commission of adultery is usually omitted by the husband, whose mood is apt to be one of bitterness at a divorce system which many British jurists and prelates have denounced as "revolting" and "unfair." Last week Mrs. Simpson filed such a divorce suit...