Word: uselessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be very difficult to say in what respect an American musical play is better than a musical play which is not American. Also it would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which...
Electric hydrophone beacons are being used now where formerly light-houses and bells were the only guides. Fog and rough weather make the older methods unreliable or utterly useless, while the electric vibrations transmitted through the sea, and registered by the hydrophone, are not seriously affected by weather conditions...
...Republic faces a situation whose dominant note is the lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person. May I say there are none...
...Mahomet's coffin!* " he cried. "I am President pro tem of the Senate. I was selected by Mr. Hoover's friends to preside over the National Convention that nominated him. I shall go to Palo Alto to deliver the speech of notification. I see that it is useless to remain in the campaign after that. So I guess I will take the first steamer to Europe and rest!" But the campaigners dined late that night at the Harvard Club and in the course of the evening Senator Moses was persuaded to accept a new title-Vice Chairman...
President (rising and turning disgustedly away) Ghrh!! A Roman Catholic, a mystic ! Useless to question the type...