Word: worthlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walked into the Hall of Justice and surrendered to his recent chief. Wise to the ways of prosecutor and press, he would make no statement. But with the information that Candidate Clark had bought a .38 calibre revolver the day before the killing (and paid for it with a worthless check) and that he had not gone home since then, District Attorney Fitts charged him with murder...
...order as one for 120,000 tractors should be placed by the Imperial Conference at a single clip. Dr. Owen dispelled this surprise, borrowing at the same time from Ford, Ltd. $170,000 for his Institute's "experiments." Thus Dr. Owen had enough money to make good his worthless check-although...
...Santa Barbara, Calif., G. F. Jackson asked a shopkeeper: "Do you want to cash a bum check?" The shopkeeper cashed it, discovered it was worthless. Arraigned in court, G. F. Jackson pleaded guilty, told the judge what he had said. The judge admitted that G. F. Jackson could not be held for violation of law if he could prove by witnesses that he had warned the shopkeeper...
...difficult to criticize "St. Vitus Day" from an historical point of view. The whole occurence is so involved and so fraught with controversy that any detailed criticism is worthless save from a student of the period. In many instances, however, the novel disagrees with the historical versions of Professor Fay or of Bernadotte Schmidt...
Clarissa was superficially a very false person. Her accent was obviously a good imitation, her voice was usually controlled. But she had money to burn and a distinct idea of the kind of conflagration she wanted. When she decided to marry worthless Fitzmaurice he was not particularly glad, but he philosophically divorced his wife, made over his little (laughter Sophie to Clarissa. Sophie's grandmother, the Princesse, a fascinating woman with a genius for attracting calamity, trailed her poverty-stricken menage all over Europe, but Sophie never saw her again till she was grown up. By that time Clarissa...