Word: worthlessly
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...such as how to be funny and how to be interesting when writing for the stage. The relatives with whom his drama concerns itself are Jewish and unfriendly. Old Wolfe Michaels, who is the kin they love to touch, decides that they, the other offshoots of his stock, are worthless. So does David Lubin, his elegant nephew who arrives from Australia. The clan has become decadent and these two are about to go bankrupt, for some reason, when word arrives that another and hitherto forgotten relative has died in the Antipodes, leaving them a fortune. Thus convinced that blood...
...checks (forged, bogus, worthless, raised, altered) are on the increase, both as to number and amounts involved...
...late Senator George Hearst, father of William Randolph, grizzly forty-niner, poker player, breeder of race horses and cattle, owned a little newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, which he regarded as a worthless joke. When Will returned from Harvard, ousted because of boyish pranks, he asked his father to give him the Examiner, and got it. Sensational features and crusades for the masses against "black" capitalists-these things young Hearst had observed in the methods of Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World; and he practiced them in San Francisco. Later, in 1895, when his father left...
These dogs are, as the case may be, worthless or precious beyond monetary considerations. Not so the dogs who get around to dog shows. There, every dog has a price; as he wins more prizes his value increases, his stud fees or her puppies are worth more money. With this speculative element in the sport, breeding pedigreed dogs becomes a business. Talavera Margaret, for instance, the winner of the show, was when very young sold by her breeder for $15. Later, he rebought her and sold her for $1,250, a fraction of her present value. The prizes offered...
...American continent." The Latin-American republics were unanimously in favor of the resolution, and it was all ready for passage when United States Ambassador Fletcher, whose duty it has been to puncture such ambitions, rose with a reservation to the terms of agreement, which would render it worthless from the South and Central American point of view. Both of these misunderstandings have now been laid aside, possibly as unbecoming a conference. Meanwhile, although the conference has not half accomplished its work, there is one thing upon which all the delegates, south and north, Nordic and Latin, are agreed: that...