Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge rose from an armchair placed behind a table, shook out his trouser legs, laid down his cigar holder, smiled. Then, without promptings or interruptions, he proceeded to interview himself for minutes while newsmen blinked their astonishment at his garrulity. Regardless of its other merits, what he said was worth $2,000 at the prices for which he now writes about himself. He began...
Like a luscious, dangling fruit is Manchuria, granary of the Orient, the only part of China not impoverished by war and famine, a prosperous land that absorbs annually $36,000,000 worth of U. S. goods. Last week the growling and hissing of Russian Bear and Chinese Dragon over the Manchurian prize grew increasingly furious until the two Great Powers clawed warily at each other, drew a few spurts of soldier blood. Such was the smoke screen of lies set up by both antagonists that alert observers could set down only a few vital, verifiable developments...
...expect to take a dollar's worth of advertising away from our main competitors, Saturday Evening Post and Colliers. And after all, there is no real competition among magazines. Rivalry, yes-but there is room for all. However, we do expect to make Liberty the greatest magazine in the history of the publishing business...
...high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...
...looked around and called for Abie. Abie is my $150-a-week New York office boy. He's worth it! ... Abie started to look around and found an old woman, thrown out of her berth, completely nude. Abie saved her, led her up to the bank. She went along quietly. Not a bit of hysteria, embarrassingly nude as she was. Her calm was wonderful...