Word: vain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lobbyist Arnold's lobbyist career began in 1908 in Austin, Tex., whence he was driven by an irate governor. He worked in vain for the railroads against the Adamson eight-hour law, for the brewers against Prohibition, for special groups against the 19th amendment (woman suffrage). In 1918 he was investigated by a congressional committee for spreading German propaganda. According to Chairman Caraway of the Senate lobby committee, Lobbyist Arnold would take any side of any public question...
...wholly fit to commemorate my graduation from, and my eternal leave-taking of, the younger generation, alike in life and in letters." One may expect nothing, he reasons, from a man of 50. The cryptogams of The Way of Ecben tell the same old Cabell story of man's vain pursuit of gay illusions. King Alfgar dreams of a witch. He sacrifices his kingdom to wander up and down the land in search of her, in which occupation he grows old. In the end he marries the witch, is rejuvenated, dies. To his publisher Robert M. McBride. Mr. Cabell dedicates...
Plum's first coups were not in butter but small arms. During the War he sold some thousands of Danish recoil rifles, grew vain, secretly published an anonymous biography of himself crammed with pictures of Balkan and European royalties, implying that all had received him whereas many...
...sturdy "Battle Bob" (1855-1925). In the House today is found a rare grandfather-father-son tradition of service in the ancient and honorable family of Tucker from Virginia. Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848) served in the 14th and 15th Congress. His chief distinction: a tirade and a vain vote in 1816 against increased pay for Congressmen which he refused to take himself. John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) served from the 44th to the 50th Congress. Henry St. George Tucker, 76, is now serving his ninth noncontinuous Congressional term since 1889. His chief distinction: a tirade and a vote...
...been kept working as late as 10 o'clock in the evening readdressing letters; and so great is the desire of the public for information that whenever there is a light burning in the evening from the window of our office, people rap at it in the vain hope that maybe we swill satisfy their desires...