Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...face contorted with rage, he paddled the harder, but in vain, and on seeing himself nearing the shore, he leaped overboard with a shrill cry of despair and began to swim away. Though his efforts were heroic, his progress was practically nil, and some thirty seconds later he was rapidly overhauled by a long arm, which ignominiously lifted and deposited him in the bottom of the boat, defeated, but not discouraged, thwarted, but not downhearted, but very, very...
...national sensation once more is felicity's zenith for Upton Sinclair, a fact which neither his enemies nor his friends have properly assayed. He is not a crackpot, but he is inordinately vain. He has not made a livelihood of scandalmongering; he has written because he was hurt. He is not an atheist; he is disgusted by commercialized religion. He is "not a "free-love"' cultist; he is an ascetic. His soft manners, his kindly eye, his intense, humorless and uncritical idealism, his obsession with the struggle of Labor and Capital for the fruits of Industry mark...
Startling news has reached the Harvard Yard this week that two of their brethren have transferred to the inferno Yale. Never before had they been so humiliated by such a procedure. However, feeling ran high as the Harvard students tried in vain to offer a plausible explanation that actually two transfers had been made. They finally managed to prepare a statement for the press which disclosed that, although there is no official record of a Harvard student over going to Yale before, 15 followers of Eli have transferred to the Harvard campus since the beginning of the Great War. Cambridge...
...Yale men are our favorites, Harvard men act too superior!" shouted Smith maidens in unison to queries on the validity of the Harvard Man's Guide, according to Sara White in the Yale News. "Harvard boys are vain, repetitious, redundant, blind, and behind the times. They like to hear themselves talk...
...have "Jafsie" Condon's street address and telephone number scribbled on it. And burrowing into the garage walls, detectives uncovered another $840 of the Lindbergh money. District Attorney Foley was now able to account for all except $329 of the $50,000 Col. Lindbergh had spent in a vain effort to get his baby back...