Word: worthlessness
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When Shem disappeared, he was two years old. As a race horse he would now be worthless but last week Horse Show rumor said that Shem, now 7, a handsome chestnut gelding with two white legs, had been exhibited in a green hunter class under an assumed name, spirited away when recognized by a prospective buyer to whom he had been offered as a bargain...
...perverted sense of patriotism possessed by most Mil. Sci. students, except those who go out to ride the horses. It shows that there will always be a certain half-backed, deluded element who are the sheep led by the militarist higher up. Mr. Bertsch states that modern warfare is worthless without the proper, modern equipment to practice it with. He lays this grievous oversight to the American people and their lack of what he calls sense of preparedness. Just what does he mean by that? Of what great danger must we beware that we must become an armed camp? These...
...Totteridge, Hertfordshire, a burglar raided the house of roly-poly Lord Chief Justice Baron Hewart, walked off with worthless papers. Three days later the burglar returned to filch the Lord Chief Justice's typewriter...
...other combine to make the cinema's view of matrimony at most times a highly sympathetic one. Consequently the current cinema season may well be remembered for the way in which two first-class pictures have revealed two rich and respectable U. S. wives as altogether worthless characters. Dodsworth (TIME. Sept. 28) showed one who lost her husband by trying to remold him in her own pattern of a social climber. Craig's Wife, adapted from the George Kelly Pulitzer Prize play of 1926, shows another who loses her hus band through psychopathic selfishness...
...worth the paper they are printed on are sometimes traded on the New York Stock Exchange but they are usually quoted in pennies. Last week a stock selling for $12 per share was stricken from the board on the voluntary confession of the company that its shares were worthless. The company was Connecticut Railway & Lighting, which has 89,772 shares of common outstanding, besides 81,429 of preferred which were not affected by last week's action...