Word: fruitlessness
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Jonkheer Loudon broached his suggestion, last week, by declaring that he is tired of having every session of his Disarmament Commission break up in fruitless disagreements. "Therefore," said he, "I refuse to reconvene the Commission . . . unless ordered to do so by the Assembly, or unless there seems to be some real prospect of agreement...
...merchant vessel Capo Nord came wallowing after the Augustus into the vicinity where the tragedy occurred. A lookout peering from the Capo Nord's mast saw or thought he saw a woman floating. Whatever the lookout saw vanished before the Capo Nord could be stopped. Search again proved fruitless. The lookout said: "I distinctly saw a bobbed-haired woman in a pink garment...
...numerous fruitless battles with the Soviet forces, between Dec. 18, 1918, and Aug. 19, 1919, the British lost twelve other ships: the light cruiser Cassandra, the mine carriers Victoria, Verulam, Gentian and Myrtle, and seven torpedo cutters...
...coalition of opposition parties claims to represent 80% of the electorate. Six days prior to the polling date, they cabled to U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg, the last of several fruitless appeals for U.S. intervention, declaring that in the event of refusal "your excellency's desire for a pure and fair election in Panama is impossible to realize...
...figure as Spike Madden, the chief mate of a merchantman, does not, exactly speaking, have a girl in every port. But at least he makes strenuous efforts--with the aid of his little address book--to find one at every place his ship drops anchor. Obviously, this quest, made fruitless by the activities of another sailor who precedes him by a day or so in each port of call, does not make for unity of plot. In fact the picture is a series of episodes admirably hung together...