Word: worthlessness
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Will you kindly inform your readers how many millions of dogs there are in the U. S.? Also make a suggestion as to the saving that could be effected during this depression by dispensing with a certain percentage of worthless and vicious curs? Why should dogs dispute for food with babies during the coining winter? I know that breeding dogs for profit is a highly commercialized, if somewhat disgusting, branch of our economic system, and that we must not step too harshly upon the dog industry: but it does seem as if something could be proposed at this opportune time...
...plot is worthless burlesque, & hopeless melange of the worst features of the worst detective "thrillers" that the cinema has produced. Professor Moriarty is there, but dull, asthmatic, licking his stupid Bapsburg chops Swearing revenge, the renovated Professor escapes from prison. One is not sure of the method, but there is a tumult of sirens, of whistles, of confused turnkeys slithering over smooth cement floors, of dead ones breathing heartily, hanging stiffly on steel staircases, & splendid tumult to make audiences forgive and forget. The rest is too much. There is a conglomeration of leers pineapples, cockney, forgeries, subway tunnels into bank...
...with the current Depression than "the wars of the Phoenicians or the conquest of Gaul by Caesar." Republican administrations, he declared, encouraged an "orgy of stock speculation" and President Coolidge "figuratively jumped into the stockpit and cheered on the gamblers." Billions of dollars of foreign securities "now practically worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled...
...face value, the leaflets offered a further bounty of $4.500 gold for the head of any one of Henry Pu Yi's ministers and a general bounty of $225 gold per set of ten Japanese heads. The head of Puppet Henry Pu Yi himself was apparently considered worthless, no bounty for it being offered...
...There is absolutely no reality in criticism, but it is among the more pleasant and interesting of indoor games--in fact far more interesting than chess. All criticism agrees in fact, but not in sentiment and therefore literary judgment is worthless," said Bernard DeVoto '20, Instructor in the Department of English, in an interview...