Word: worthlessly
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...hangman and a swindler!" shouted the mob-composed exclusively of members of Herr Roll's association. "Pay us! Pay us, Schacht! We want 1,000 gold marks for every one of these!" They waved their now worthless pre-War 1,000 paper mark notes. Eventually police reserves arrived, quelled the disorder, made possible the continuance of Dr. Schacht's libel suit...
...Worthless checks signed "von Krupp...
...still dislikes publicity. Last week arrested at Albuquerque, N. M., for cashing a worthless check, he protested in indignation that among his friends were Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, Russell Firestone (son of Akron's tireman), Thomas Edison, Governor Smith of New York, Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times...
...Baron" had used the alias, "George Adorgan," when attempting to enter Yale University last fall and had passed several worthless checks upon sophisticated New Haven merchants...
Across the path of the still speeding dolphin a Danish sailboat tacked, jiggled. Like a blunt-nosed swordfish the torpedo punctured the sail boat's hull, churned and frothed with the expiring might of its compressed air, was carried to the bottom as the relatively worthless fishing smack sank...