Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Army's discipline. General Pangalos answered by contributing a statement to the Politcia, Athens journal: "Every hair on the heads of the Republican officers which may be interfered with will be paid for by the heads of Venizelists [Government Party].' It is known that I never threaten in vain. I now threaten." And he was as good as his word...
...that he had to flee the country. His choice left him free to write a letter home in which he described glowingly the country he had reached. His father, mother, six assorted brothers, sisters, set out to reach his side. When Henry Clay was making a vain but practised compromise with Death, and John Calhoun had roared his last, Peter Cooper, builder of the first U. S. locomotive, had a Steinway piano...
Hall choruses will sing almost in tune; so will various players in the two huge orchestras. Speakers will try in vain to make themselves heard; so will be chaperones. A few upperclassmen will break in; the rest will stay at home and smile...
...state of mind prevalent among business men, however, has recently changed. During the winter, a boom in trade was eagerly anticipated. When, by early spring, this common expectation was shown to be vain, an attitude of alarm spread to some extent. The collapse of stockmarket prices, the St. Paul receivership, the Hindenburg election and other untoward incidents were cited as indicative of calamities to come...
...remarks, I found myself needing a more accurate definition of a certain trade term, no doubt thoroughly familiar to all of you, than I was able to command. The word was 'Rayon.' But when I pulled down the alleged unabridged dictionary on my desk, I searched in vain for it. I finally found it in a technical handbook." It was not charged that quotation of the President in this instance amounted to fraud, but it was noticed that this was the second attempt this month to capitalize Mr. Coolidge in a stock-selling campaign. The first attempt...