Word: worthlessness
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Protestants seem to feel they are the mother of freedom of interpretation of religion, and are doing an enormous job in delivering worthless brats. Chief offenders are the Baptists and Methodists, who insist on being "martyred" in Catholic countries while they practice anti-Catholicism daily in our "democratic" South . . . These pesty Baptists and friends will force their way to Colombia, Mexico, and even on the Pope's front lawn with the effrontery of troublemakers rather than the bearers of the Word of Peace. Is bigotry a one-way affair...
...style reactions. The preferred stocks of Central States, which had long since shrunk to a nubbin, came suddenly to life. Overnight, the $7 preferred shot up from 22 to 35 a share, the $6 preferred from 4¾ to 12½, and even the common stock, deemed almost worthless, rose from 4? to 12?. In a backhand sort of way, the rise was a vote of confidence in Harrison Williams-that is, in his ability to pay the money, if he must...
...passionate devotion to her. He just feels "empty" and runs to the company of the Lebedevs, who are themselves living superficial existences and are unable to understand one another. It is interesting that the only person who can temporarily awake these creatures from their lethargy is Misha, a worthless schemer, admirably played in the Brattle production by Paul Sparer...
Perhaps, instead, the University wished to honor them because they were victims of a worthless and terrible scourge called war. Even if this purpose justified a memorial, a gift of money to some organization or organizations specifically set up to combat this scourge would have been more appropriate...
...Laude. In Los Angeles, Orville Rambo, an armless midget who learned to write with a pencil held between his chin and shoulder, was sentenced to San Quentin prison for writing a worthless check...