Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...useless to hold forth now concerning the moral character of our obligations. American business men will only listen to us on commercial grounds. Let us speak of them as men of affairs. Above all, do not let us appear to be trying to conjure away any part of our debt or to be trying to tie their hands...
...further suggested that a commission appointed by the League should decide when the danger of opium smuggling in China is passed; for, in his lordships opinion, it was useless to deal in half measures-all production in the drug was to cease immediately. It would then be possible for a 15-year period of gradual suppression of opium production to begin...
...sword in a palace garden. Upon the countenance of this titled guardsman is an expression at once arrogant, amused and sly, the result of a lifetime spent in listening to what blood will tell. A small dachshund straddles at his feet; the sooty face of this quaint and useless animal reflects, curiously enough, his identical expression...
...Roscoe Pound was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1870. He is an authority on Law, on Botany, has written much on each. Famed as a liberal, he opposed Attorney General Palmer's prosecution of the "reds" in 1919, pleaded for amnesty for political prisoners. Convention in law, unwieldy, useless, displeases him. He has suggested many judicial reforms. A Freemason, he once published a series of lectures on "The Philosophy of Free-masonry...
...which the conservative British government brands impractical or over-ambitious. The inventor's older daughter takes to the chorus and the younger to the teaching of dancing in an eternally losing struggle to make both ends meet. "Tiny", the dancing teacher, falls in love with a wealthy but quite useless young man, whose parents-firmly forbid the match. Here the lovable "Uncle Anyhow" steps in to fix things up, which he does for everyone, including himself. The scene in which he haltingly proposes marriage--"an absurd suggestion, I know"--to the older daughter, "Rude Min" of the chorus...