Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think it is a trial balloon," Wild said, "to see how much effect the horrors of the Japanese situation have had upon the American public." He did not believe that the situation would lead to a modification of the Neutrality Bill, however, as "the President has tried in vain three times before to get a flexible bill through the Congress...
...injunctions against coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen striding across the Yard, or mounting the steps to Widener's top floor with incredible rapidity, while undergraduates try in vain to beat him to the top via the elevator...
...Smigly-Rydz, Inspector General of the Army, gave him to the nation as his successor. Lacking the personal magnetism of the Old Marshal, the landscape-painting Marshal makes a poor Dictator. Using Pilsudski's coffin as his chief stock-in-trade, soft-spoken Smigly-Rydz has appealed in vain for all factions to heed the Old Marshal's wish for a unified Poland...
...Hall ousting last week chanced to fall on the day preceding the birthday of Attorney Hall's 71-year-old mother, who, to celebrate the anniversary, had invited her three sons to dine with her. At Mrs. Hall's home last week, her sons waited in vain for her to appear. Next morning they found her body in the morgue, where it had been taken by police after she dropped dead on a busy street. Cause of her death was heart failure-attributable, doctors said, to the shock caused by news of her son's ousting headlined...
...convention was Richard D. Evans, of Waco, Texas, a hero among Negro lawyers for his able but vain Court fights against the State law barring Negroes from registering in Democratic primaries. Philadelphia's lanky Raymond Pace Alexander, Harvard Law '23, who claims to be the "most active Negro lawyer" with 200 cases a year and net annual income of $20,000, reported that in the North things are somewhat better. Successful Negro lawyers can average about $5,000 a year. With a broad grin, Lawyer Alexander told how he delighted to go South on a case and force...