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First he took up scuba diving; later he embarked on a long trail of treasureless sea hunts, barely supporting his growing family as a peripatetic encyclopedia salesman and brickworker.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Of what use is it to have a treasureless treasurer?"

From Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Flower, Jessie Graham [pseud.]

Indignation ran rife among the Lookouts when on Thursday evening they came into the dismaying knowledge that thanks to Mignon, Susan Atwell had become a treasureless treasurer.

From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine

Susan, you are no longer a treasureless treasurer.

From Marjorie Dean High School Senior by Chase, Josephine