Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tuition income. To the man with means it would mean abolishing a system of philanthropy which is neither added nor wanted. To the man who could not afford such a charge at the time it would offer a self respecting means of obtaning an education without inflctng useless hardships...
...family line bears still a light touch of eightteenth-century-grace and sprightliness; his-still successful-son is of Victorian solidity, not without a note of religious and general hypocrisy. The third generation consists of one sister of energetic, lively character, and of two brothers; one an entirely useless person, given to a frivolous life much to the sorrow of his parents, and yet-poor Christian-a good companion and a likeable fellow! His elder brother keeps better in line with the family tradition. He brings the name to full splendor by becoming a senator; he erects a new home...
...when the only fit place for the undergraduate from June to September was a hammock, nicely fortified with cooling drinks and those strange things known as summer novels. In any other position he was considered anachronistic; somehow a winter occupied with scholastic endeavors demanded a quite idle and useless antidote...
...aware that the budget for 1928 is about to be finally presented for Parliamentary approval. ... It will depend upon the two chambers whether the results of ten months of labor are to be consolidated in the budget, or whether all the work which we have accomplished will be rendered useless. . . . Should that occur we will fall back again into the abyss from which we have climbed,* and we will never be able to climb out a second time...
...braid upon the bench beheld a wiry, dynamic little prisoner who rattled the bars of his iron cage,* and hurled lightnings of defiance. "What more do you want? What more do you want?" he shouted as the presiding judge strove to compel at least an orderly confession. It was useless. Signor Zaniboni was not to be suppressed by an iron cage, much less by a gold-braided judge. Reporters gasped at his daring and wrote with racing pencils...