Word: worthlessly
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...guerrilla warfare of peace they are blown together again, but now some are big businessmen, others are professionally criminals, pimps, dope-sellers; some are Communists; the women are shrunken harridans or plumped-up prostitutes. It is a civilization fighting the throes of corruption : normal human feelings, human values are worthless, no longer existent; the most perverted, grotesque exaggeration is the rule. Author Neumann has laid on both somber and gruesome colors with a heavy hand. Whether or not a caricature it is a big picture, horrible, nightmarish...
...many of these cases, even if the stock is regarded as worthless, the offer is a bargain. But soon after the purchaser is known as a stockholder, warned B. B. B., high-pressure salesmen would visit him, sell him many more shares of stock. Even less legitimate than most offers, however, is that of the Wrigley Pharmaceutical Co., selling stock and a ''spearmint toothpaste." For although the company's president signs himself W. W. Wrigley, neither he nor the concern are connected with potent William Wrigley Jr. Co. of Chicago...
...Sarah and Son" she not only acts superbly, but acquires a realistic German accent, and even goes so far as to improve in her knowledge of English as the picture progresses. Miss Chatterton has the role of a young German girl who, as a vaudeville actress, marries her worthless partner. In a fit of anger, he runs off with their baby son. The picture traces Sarah's rise from vaudeville to grand opera, as a sort of sub-plot to her struggles to regain her boy from the family in whose custody her husband had left it. There...
...accepted by the villagers, becomes a familiar figure at the pub, goes into partnership with Farmer Kindred. His housekeeper falls in love with him, but he is too busy becoming a farmer to notice it, though he gives her much too much good advice about her worthless husband, and once even bites off the lobe of that worthy's ear in her defense. Mulliver is already committed to a farmer's lass; the housekeeper and her brutal husband disappear; the converted grocer marries the girl. It is a pleasantly rustic idyll, with enough quaint dialect to tickle good...
...Detroit, one Donald Henderson was arrested for passing a worthless check. He had with him a letter of thanks from President Hoover for a raincoat which Donald Henderson, one rainy day during the Golden Jubilee of Light, had removed from his back and loaned to the President...