Word: worthlessly
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About a reel of utterly worthless material should be excised and quietly thrown away. Remaining would be a smartly dressed melodrama, with Miss Murray acting a good deal better than usual in a decidedly interesting part...
...LADY?Melodramatic reunion of the virtuous chorus girl, the worthless husband, the luckless infant, the irate grandfather?well played and still luxuriously emotional...
...agree upon a common attitude and common action had brought all Europe to a most critical and dangerous situation. This is not time to mince words. The impenetrable and colossal fog bank of economic opinion, based upon premises of fact, which have changed so rapidly as to make them worthless even if they are in agreement." Stating that he could speak neither for the American Government nor for the American people, Mr. Dawes added: "But as an individual, I read in shame and humiliation the outpourings of the American nationalistic demagogues who undertake to lecture Europe in order to lift...
There was a mad rush in Berlin when the Government announced the first issue of 142,000,000 rentenmarks, which is to replace the worthless paper mark. The press, indignant, demanded that the Government take steps to prevent a similar disturbance when the next issue is given...
...provincial schools in Corsica and Avignon and writing textbooks to raise a large family and secure a modest competence that would allow him to devote himself wholly to his insect friends. At last, in 1879, he was able to buy some arid wasteland, called by the peasants harmas (worthless), at Serignan, a village in Provence. There in a small stucco cottage he lived till his death, a gentle, philosophical hermit, finding on his harmas a paradise of swarming insects. With tweezers, magnifying glass, tin box, he collected his living specimens, observed them in their diggings and dwellings, their battles, their...