Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Terrorist Marat. One of its more recent inmates was the equally publicized Spy Mata Hari. U. S. inmates have included the Comtesse de Janze, the former Alice Silverthorne of Chicago, for shooting her lover (whom she later married) and Mrs. Ruth Putnam Mason, author and actress, for passing worthless checks. On the site will be built a new clubhouse for the Societe des Auvergnats, whose members all hail from the old province of Auvergne. Most prominent of Auvergnats is former Premier Pierre Laval...
...Paris, including visits to "the Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Napoleon's Tomb, the Invalides (sic), Luxembourg Gardens, the Trocadero, the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and to Versailles" with "remaining free time to be taken up by visits to the theatre, the Opera, shopping, etc.," such trips are culturally worthless. They serve only to while away the long hours of retired nutmeg manufacturers, and provide the thin veneer of background to match the slurred R's of the midwestern matron. The refuge for Americans too far developed for the rubber-neck wagon excursions, however, is the American colony in Paris, which...
...John has chronic rheumatism which does not endear him to Sarah, his lusty-bodied wife. Her eyes roam to Luther's agile body in the fields, and there they stay. She tries to snare him, but he has the wit to stay away. Meanwhile John Sprouse's worthless brother Bengo debauches Sis, and, to forestall Luther's possible revenge, attacks him. Luther, broken-hearted about Sis, who can never pass for an Indian girl now, knows it is time for him to clear out of Ball's Wharf. He sends Sis off to the Batkins...
Left, By George L. ("Tex") Rickard, sports promoter who died three years ago; an estate of approximately $184,000 (originally appraised at more than $500,000). To his relict, Maxine Elliot Rickard, and daughter will go the bulk of the fortune. Among the assets were worthless stocks of 53 corporations, nearly as many personal notes of no value. His interest in the Miami dog-race track, which cost him $250,000, was sold for $10,000. For his yacht Maxine (purchased from Walter P. Chrysler) the estate received...
Candidate Gustave Winter, darkest of dark horses, could fairly be said to have prevented President von Hindenburg's reelection. His platform was that some payment or restitution should be made to holders of "worthless" German paper mark banknotes of 1,000-mark denominations or larger...