Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...system was less favorable, more revealing. "Trials by jury" he said, "are farcical. The jury is always opposed to the government. . . " The customs receipts had increased, he reported, under U. S. supervision. Meanwhile at the Haitian border, Negro gendarmes under the command of U. S. onetime marines, waited in vain to arrest U. S. Senator King who announced he would not try to enter the country over President Borno's ban (TIME, March...
...Herald of March 23, Mr. Philip Hale expends over five paragraphs, and much space in the Symphony program, in attempting to prove his contention that Beethoven's "Missa Solomnis" has little spiritual value after all. To Mr. Hale part of the Mass gives "an effect of infinite labor and vain endoavor and is not an uplifting of the hearer's soul." One almost expects him to say that the music might just as well have been written to the words of almost any Gerruan folk song...
This hot-blood from Picardy was wrestling then in his soul, between the relentless, earthy doctrines of Hippolyte Adolphe Taine, and a certain stirring of religious mysticism within him which he had tried in vain to sully, down, and conquer by debauch. Perhaps in the young man's troubled mind Death and God seemed strangely opposed, for he had just come from the sick bed of a favorite grandfather, then dying of cancer of the stomach...
Perhaps this is a reward to the faithful, and a proof that Symphony concerts are not in vain. Certainly the subscribers to the series never foresaw when they trod their ways to those simple, unassuming Thursday evenings, that ultimately fame would come--fame and Mr. Chaplin. But the scandal sheets have headlined the affair, not as praising the advent of culture and Rimsky-Korsokof in Cambridge, but as announcing the presence of a much married man. This is as it should be: the tabloid has its story: Mrs. Chaplin sees Memorial Hall when it is most imposing--in the dead...
Hearken, friends, it is a story droP Of Gypsy Gorman, Spanish, chorus girl, Who wed for love, of course he had a roll, And tried to swim the social whirl. Jimmy Ralston was the wealthy swain Who wed this, Jewish, chorus dame; For act and act he tries in vain His Mother's wrath to fully maim...