Word: profitlessness
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...writer with an artistic conscience, is apparently one of the most difficult things imaginable. Doubts assail, characters will not behave, words will not marshal themselves in neat array. It is my belief that, when an author gets over this pain of production, his product becomes dull and profitless. After six years of newspaper work?years which Miss Ferber places ahead of any university courses she might have had?you would think that she could sit down at a typewriter and dash off a novel as a reporter accomplishes an assignment. Not so. For this task of writing, she trains much...
...that France should follow England's example in arranging the steps leading to ultimate payment. The American view is that these loans are collectible and due like commercial debts, and since it refused annexations or indemnities in making the peace, the United States must not consent to undergo this profitless confiscation of its capital. Justice seems to lie in each claim, and in none...
...Book. Portrait painting is distinctly not among the lively arts. Wherefore it is not profitable in the U. S. nowadays. But even scholars and gentlemen prefer to have their books sell. Wherefore Mr. Ernest Boyd, though he has called his new book Portraits, has not been indulging solely in profitless portraiture. He has also, and more often, been cocking a sharpish eye, flicking a sharpish pen and dashing off a row of caricatures as lively as ever you please...
Weather-worn hulks lying in profitless decay...
...great stories of the Trojan War was the wooden horse. One of the best stories of the World War was the wooden ships. Now their weather-worn hulks are lying in profitless decay...