Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Christmas is quite another thing. All the brains that have been racked and paper wasted in vain attempts to analyse the spirit of Christmas show how little any of us know about it after the first ten magical years of our life are over. It needs a supreme disregard of physical limitations and an indifference to the more material things of the world that only a few divinely gifted men retain after they have lost their ignorance of them. Dickens knew the secret when he wrote that spiritual epic "The Christmas Carol". Not many Bob Cratchits can quite forget...
With the announcement in today's CRIMSON, the Cercle Francais indicates that it too is alive to Modern Times. Not so extreme that patrons of their dramatic production will spend the first act in vain attempts to make sense out of the doings of those upon the stage and the last two in a program-thumbing defeatism, still the members of the Cercle show a heartening discontent with mere conventional performance. The staging of seventeenth century plays in modern dress is not entirely unprecedented, but hitherto the creations of Moliere have been passed over by the managers who have...
Briefly, the Minister of Posts & Telegraphs had been showing himself entirely too considerate of blackamoor trade unions. In vain Big White General Hertzog and his Nationalist Party had threatened, fumed. Mr. Madeley as a member of the Labor Party could not see his way clear to upholding the Nationalist postulate that blackamoors must be "kept in their place," economically, politically. The crisis was precipitated when Minister Madeley received a Negro deputation from the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union, officially, at the Ministry of Posts & Telegraphs. That reception brought General Hertzog's demand for the Minister's resignation...
...their mother's words. At last their vigil is rewarded and the familiar step of their progenitor echoes through the open transom. But as the door swings open upon the expectant group, one glance suffices to convey the dire truth that the father's quest has been in vain. Abstract knowledge is the only sustenance he has to offer in the eyes of the brave mother...
...Winnipeg, Fritz Kreisler cut his finger shaving. Some 3,000 waited in vain for his concert, while his fiddles lay still. Danger of blood-poisoning passed...