Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monarchists or Reichsbloc, formed mainly of the Nationalists and German People's Party, searched in vain to find another leader. General-feldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg was approached and, after some hesitation, refused to stand as the Monarchist candidate. It was expected that Dr. Jarres, the last candidate, would be renominated...
...Vain man, didst thou suppose thou hadst the power...
...demand. Finally, on the eve of his death, a morning newspaper* consented to halt its presses and print a single copy of a special edition, called by the British press "the bedside edition," wherein was described his "great improvement" and the certainty of his early convalescence?but all in vain; the "bedside edition" was hardly wet with its ink before Lord Curzon had expired. It was a considerate and sporting gesture...
Much has been said in the columns to the left of "The Windmill" concerning the status of the college newspaper, all in vain, too, because college administrators still persist in disciplining college editors who will insist upon getting into not water...
...mean too much. No actor can please all the critics. But I'll venture that if all American critics were brought to one performance of my play, I could please 90 per cent of them. Most actors, however, don't read criticisms for any reason except that they are vain, and the critic praises them because it makes his job more pleasant than censure would...