Word: worthlessly
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...Alaska is "the spoiled child of Uncle Sam," a place of impossible conditions, where there are no resources to justify a permanent population. Only profitable resource in the territory, according to Mr. Christensen, is fishing along the southern coast. Alaskan coal- prime reason for building the railroad-is worthless. The few copper, quartz gold and placer mines will eventually be worked...
...Mansion on the Hudson, Miss Skinner is first a bustled lady of 1880, the mistress of "Tall Trees," rejecting an old flame's advances even though her worthless husband is busy dissipating his property over the gaming tables at Saratoga. By 1898 "Tall Trees" has fallen into the hands of the Howlands, represented by a scatter-brained Gibson Girl whose husband has gone off to die in the Spanish War. The year 1920 sees crabbed old Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles...
There followed such a mass of charges and counter-charges that examining magistrates were glad to postpone the entire business, clap Grandson Millet into jail on the simple charge of passing worthless checks...
...atheist will argue that there is no soul to depart from a corpse, a believer will say that the soul is immortal, but both agree that after death, the body is just a worthless piece of flesh. Why then, give this 98? worth of lifeless meat an all-metal casket costing thousands of dollars, an expensive monument, a shower of floral wreaths and a long line of hired cars filled by hired mourners...
...worthless check, a total wreck, a flop...