Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inherited from his father Alfred the thriving steel works of Baldwins, Ltd., a directorship of the Great Western Railway, and the pocket borough of Bewdley in Worcestershire. He made little impression at school or Varsity, or in the House of Commons. After seven years in Parliament he was feeling useless and ready to quit. But his wife, Lucy Ridsdale (with whom he had fallen in love as he watched her bowl in a cricket match), urged him to stick it out three more years...
Although perhaps lacking the personal touch, a gift that will warm the cockles of any male heart is a product indigenous to Kentucky, particularly pleasant when wrapped in Christmas ribbon and bottled in bond. In short, whoever you may be, offer not badfnerle.Shown above is probably the most useless Christmas gift ever given to anyone: a wax dummy in a top hat. Everyone knows that wax dummies look better in fedoras...
...Sweeper. Despite the opposition of two of his four commissioners, each of whom has almost as much power as the mayor, Chep tidied up the city's government. He swept out the hacks of the "Old Regulars," the regular city Democratic machine. He knocked 400 useless people off city payrolls...
...pushed through a $23,500,000 bond issue, and last month he signed contracts for a new union railroad station, a score of under-and overpasses, the filling of the now useless canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
After a month of useless wrangling and recrimination the Union and the Houses are finally getting together in a cooperative attempt to plan weekend dances. A Union football dance during the Dartmouth weekend, the first in its history, out into a monopoly held by the inter-House committee and touched off an argument of magnificent proportions. Last week, under Student Council guidance, representatives of the inter-House Social Committee and the Union Committee agreed to agree. Although some knotty problems still face the two groups, they should reach a speedy concurrence o forestall further friction...