Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus wrote Walt Whitman and thus Sculptor Jo Davidson has modeled him, stepping with a fine stride, his long greatcoat billowing out in his van like a useless, gallant mainsail. The design was chosen last week as the best of those submitted for the Walt Whitman Memorial which is to be erected in Manhattan by the Authors' Club. The design will soon be shown at a Whitman exhibition in the New York Public Library...
About "Old Diplomacy": "The talk about 'old diplomacy' and 'new diplomacy' is little better than useless chatter. So far as it leads people to look for safety in new methods, it is a positive hindrance and mischief. . . . What is diplomacy ? . . . Business men use it in transactions with one another . . . every committee uses it. ... It is called 'diplomacy' when Governments, which are the executive committees of nations, are dealing with each other, because it then has certain forms. Representatives of Governments call each other Excellency, and so forth. . . . The honest man could and did play...
...generally done for. Blinded, paralyzed or twisted, they can only find a spot in a stable-yard and wait for death. Hard is the lot of yellow alley-dogs, which often have no place to go; they must drag themselves about from corner to corner, pushing a pair of useless front legs or perhaps pulling their bodies behind them like billets because their hind-legs are shriveled to sad bony wisps. Such dogs throw a ghastly shadow as they limp about in the sunlight...
...person known connected with the message, it is useless to question him. He replies only by emitting the evasive ejaculation...
...first day given to him Colonel Mitchell read 35,000 words of prepared statements. When Colonel Mitchell came up to testify he asked to be sworn. Mr. Morrow answered that it was not customary. Cameramen rushed up to "snap" him and Mitchell remarked: "I think all this is useless, Mr. Chairman." He said he was 45 years old, had been in the army 27 years, had been flying 17 years. Then he began to read in a high clear voice. He contended that the U. S. was vulnerable to aerial attack from Europe and Asia, that what was needed...