Word: worthlessly
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...half-caste, Dolores del Rio, shaking her sex-appeal in all directions, presses vigorously through the plot and against Walter Pidgeon the leading man. To her able acting in What Price Glory, such a specialized performance is a disappointing sequel. Nonetheless, it is sufficient to give an otherwise almost worthless picture some value beyond the pornographic...
Miss Brady plays a poverty stricken preacher's daughter. Desperate, when her worthy father loses his pastorate, she turns to evangelism under the canny tutelage of a red headed Bible salesman. She loves a worthless young man who stumbles into her temple tent just in time to be swept away by her passionate call for converted sinners. Later she must tell him it was fakery...
...certain extent every college man whose parents are supporting him is a parasite. True the investment will double or triple eventually; but for the time he is absolutely worthless to anyone but himself. And this at a time when he could assist as no other human; when he could be of infinitely more value than his own father in certain fields of welfare work. He can be of more value by lending himself to the needs of a boys' club now than he can by a fat donation in 1948. He can coach a basketball team or referee a game...
Some deposits which are apparently rich and deep prove to be only a thin layer of profitable ore over worthless rock. Electrical instruments are being devised to register not only the presence of metals, but the extent of the ore pocket, and so prevent wasted efforts. Metals have a decided influence upon delicate electrical mechanism, and the various effects of each metal give a key to the nature of the concealed deposit...
...Adams battling for $1,250 which he feels Vitaphone owes him as part of a $15,000 salary as musical director. Mr. Adams fed Mary Lewis stimulant in a teacup, so ran the testimony, and her resulting record of the Barcarole (Tales of Hoffman) showed voice strain, was worthless...