Word: useless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meet" "petite little Jackie Saunders," etc. A college girl bought a liberty bond from Mary Pickford? "a thrill that comes but once in a life time." A waitress in a tearoom who waited on Eugene O'Brien had him write his name in her Spanish book which "It is useless to say, I shall never sell...
...Harvard Lampoon, with the graciousness and condescension born of its longstanding victories over the CRIMSON's unclean hordes, and with the usual, useless request that said literary abortion and misconception--namely and to wit, CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing lighted matches, cigarettes, or corncobs out of the car windows, riding on the platform, indulging in spirituous liquors in an immedicinal or ungentlemanly sort of way, or talking unnecessarily to the motorman) the Harvard Lampoon does, under all foregoing and said conditions, challenge the Harvard CRIMSON to its annual baseball game...
...Harvard Lampoon, with the graciousness and condescension born of its longstanding victories over the CRIMSON'S unclean hordes, and with the usual, useless request that said literary abortion and misconception--namely and to wit, CRIMSON--refrain from such misdemeanors as are punishable by law (expectorating on the floor, throwing lighted matches, cigarettes, or corn-cobs out of the car windows, riding on the platform, indulging in spirituous liquors in an immedicinal or ungentlemanly sort of way, or talking unnecessarily to the motorman) the Harvard Lampoon, I say, under all foregoing and said conditions, challenges the Harvard CRIMSON, to its annual...
...useless to reiterate the arguments for and against a "practical" memorial. But it seems reasonable to think that the practical and the ideal should be combined; and it is emphatically certain that a new chapel would not combine them. The college religious service no longer plays any part in the lives of a vast majority of students, nor is it likely to become any more important in the future. A new building would hardly change this situation, and a lifeless, neglected edifice would be the most ignominious of tributes. Furthermore the very idea of such a suggestion would have seemed...
Unfortunately laws are too easily made, and statute books become yearly heavier with useless impedimenta. Perhaps a prohibitive fee could be charged for initiating legislation. But, until some such brake can be attached to law-making machinery of the future, a clarification of its past products will be of inestimable value--both to students, to politicians, to judges, and, perhaps, to the defendants themselves...