Word: worthlessness
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Later Moore moved west, with his membership card, his lapel pin and the White House photo, protected by a cellophane case. Until last week he went over big wherever he went. Then Lion Moore passed a worthless check on a brother member in Salt Lake City, and the police, digging into the past, dug up a story. Items...
...anti-Russian, but ardently pro-Greek. By implication, the film pleads for continuing UNRRA relief, increased U.S. sympathy and support, a free expression of popular opinion in the coming Greek general elections. Most eloquent shot: two small, hungry Greeks ratting around the trash of a city dump, pushing aside worthless, repudiated drachma notes in their search for something...
...result, according to the report: some $2.5 billion in railroad stocks, had been written off the books as worthless, some just before the war boom began. If this had not been done-and earnings had been pro rated-these stocks would have earned an estimated $750 million from...
...made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
With a fat checkbook and telepathic adroitness, "Don Carlos" promised people anything-usually what they wanted most. As fast as they succumbed and took the worthless checks, "Don Carlos" swore them to secrecy and admitted them to the society of the greedy but gullible. Most of them loved it. The late, onetime President Plutarco Elías Calles was said to have attended one of the meetings, called Noches de Balmori. The initiates included bankers who sought power, generals who grasped for office, musicians who wanted a career, women who wanted palatial homes. More than 100 women reportedly married...