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...born P. G. Wodehouse once confided that his life has been "greatly devoted to feeling like 30 cents." His first feeling of being below par interrupted the ceremony in which, 79 years ago, the infant Wodehouse was named Pelham Grenville. Said he: "I remember protesting vigorously, but to no avail." His longest bout with misfortune came in 1940 when Plum, as he has been called since schooldays, was arrested by the Nazi army in his home at Le Touquet on the French side of the English Channel. The Nazis whisked him from jail to jail for 49 weeks, then released...
They naturally knew there was no avail...
...field, so there was little ball handling, and consequently a low score. Brown managed to take advantage of one lucky break to do the only scoring of the 5-0 Crimson loss. Harvard spent the last ten minutes of playing time its good scoring position, but to no avail...
...avail. Every Democrat on the floor voted for the bill, and it sailed home, 336 to 76. The Senate had already approved a similar bill calling for President Kennedy to name 73 new judges. Nobody expects that the Democrats from both branches will have any trouble in compromising the final number of prizes at 71 or 72, mostly for good and faithful fellow Democrats...
...Henri G. had a well-stocked medicine chest, and a resourceful officer had used half the pharmacopoeia on the young seaman to no avail. But he had not exhausted his resources: the Henri G. had first-class medical help within easy reach-though 5,000 miles away...