Word: useless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to drink in, and so be these boots too." There is certainly nothing "dated" in this joke to spoil it, but it would hardly rate in the poorest radio laugh-show. It belongs to a comic old knight, still able to raise cain, but really as antiquated and useless as the England which is giving way to new commerce and "new men" like the ambitious Malvolio. And rather than the "robust comedy" which Miss Hughes wants, the mellowness and restraint of Norman Lloyd and Mark Smith seemed to me a perfect interpretation...
...Chief of Air Staff Sir Charles Frederick Algernon Portal. As head of the Bomber Command, before his new appointment fortnight ago, he had been puncturing Hitler's boasts of German invulnerability with a threefold purpose: 1) to smash production and disrupt communications; 2) to render coastal ports useless as invasion springboards; 3) to crack German morale...
...press spoke out. Said the Toronto Telegram: "The whole program looks like a political sideshow designed to put up a front of doing something without arousing ill feeling on the part of those who are called up." Said the Globe & Mail: "All military experts reject [the scheme] as comparatively useless. . . . Soldiers who had barely learned to shoulder arms and form threes would be no more effective against the highly trained and mechanized forces of the enemy we are now fighting than an unorganized mob equipped with pitchforks...
...amusements, for they keep the people from vice." Thus quipped vice man Samuel Johnson in one of his more lucid moments. According to Dr. Johnson's specifications, the U. T., as a public amusement, has saved the souls of countless Harvard men who might otherwise have whiled away long, useless hours of vice in Scollay Square, the Brookline Country Club, or Widener...
Most advisory groups agree that objectors should not refuse to register, because then they will never have a chance to express their views. At registration tomorrow objectors will not have to state their case. They can do so if they insist, but it would be a useless formality, since the questionnaire which the local draft board will send them later on will offer their real chance to present their arguments...