Word: worthlessness
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...Advertised. In San Diego, Duane P. Fraser succeeded in cashing a worthless check for $20 at the Soft Touch Service Station...
Inasmuch as the only things a civilization is ever remembered by ... are the artistic (materialistically worthless) doings of a small group, I feel it is particularly fitting that a realistic, and if you will a materialistic, organization such as TIME should take a short detour from its news reporting to laud Robert Frost for his contribution to future generations. You have done a fine...
Tabitha first appears as a young girl in a small English town, orphaned and stuck with a dull, painfully married elder brother. Thirsty for adventure, she runs off with Bonser, a jovial fast-talking bounder who peddles worthless shares in country pubs. Bonser juggles her on his knee and cuddles her in bed, but he runs out when her money does...
...college training seems as worthless now as the advice from her mother, ."All you have to do is tell them stories and let them color pictures." The new teacher finally crosses the street and walks into the school building, but she decides that "the children are lucky. Most of them know what they're walking into. What about the new teachers? Nobody thought of us, I guess...
Home to Roost. In Milwaukee, an electrician treated his son and 39 other boys to chicken dinners in a restaurant, paid the bill with $20 in cash and the worthless $120 check the restaurateur had given him in 1948 in payment for some electrical work...