Word: valuelessness
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...goes Maine, so goes the Union," is a venerable political saw, cherished and valueless. Nevertheless after Maine's Congressional and gubernatorial election this week, Democrats everywhere had cause to whoop gaily. Normally Maine is Republican by 25,000 votes or more. Since the Civil War only two Democratic governors have been elected, in 1880 and in 1914. This week, with a close, heavy vote, the Democrats sent in a governor and two out of three Congressmen...
...Embree's Browns are still mostly peasants and servants on Southern farms or laborers in Northern factories. But sufficient have risen into the arts, professions and commerce for him to predict their pervasion of the U. S. scene and despite much turmoil, which he considers not altogether valueless for U. S. culture, their passive acceptance by the general population...
...shrewd, lighthearted, brutal detective (Ricardo Cortez) -are bad enough. All of them are eager to acquire an item of antique jewelry†- the Maltese falcon. They commit a total of three murders in the effort to do so. In a wry conclusion, the Maltese falcon is found to be valueless; the detective delivers the heroine (Bebe Daniels) to the police for hanging. The Lawyer's Secret (Paramount). However distressing it may be when a client comes to his lawyer and confesses to being implicated in a murder, the lawyer's situation becomes even more painful when...
...last decade the mind of skeptical youth has indulged itself in a period of criticism of the old order, of challenge, of destruction of apparently valueless tradition. It has sought from the rostrum of the lecture-hall and from the pulpit something solid and of enduring value. It has sought to free itself from the clutches of pure sentimentality and heroics. And now the new decade is destined to build a finer educational and ethical structure upon the sturdy foundations from which has been removed the incubus of the inglorious edifice inherited from our elders. The destructive criticism...
Effective last week the Mexican Treasury announced that banknotes issued by defunct Mexican banks are now officially "valueless," no longer legal tender...