Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase and negotiation of other questions. Six weeks ago, with nothing more settled, the union struck. To outsiders it looked as if the union had picked Auto-Lite to open its drive to capture the whole motor industry. The company continued operating, hired other workmen. Wrathful strikers picketed in vain. Charging many cases of violence, the company got an injunction restraining the union from posting more than 25 pickets at its gates. Even so. workers had to fight their way in and out of the shop, morning and evening. Strikers were arrested for breaking the picketing injunction. Tension grew, then...
...ingenuity in projecting her photographs into life-sized semblances, but they will not agree that she has made these foreigners completely lifelike. Like H. M. Bateman's immortal "Boy who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum," Author Scott has breathed indomitably but mostly in vain...
...usual tone of remarks on the subject has been a heated criticism of its mere presence, but all of the words and mouthings have apparently fallen on deaf or unrelenting ears. All efforts have gone in vain and little trouble has been expended in remedying a situation that is annoying to many...
...took him to the postponed opening game of the baseball season between Washington and Boston. President Roosevelt threw out the first ball and soon after was almost struck by a high foul which fell on the seat next to him. Secret Service men fell over themselves trying in vain to catch it. The President grinned at "Barney" Baruch: "Another foot nearer and there might have been a national catastrophe." Soon threatening clouds filled the sky. Said the President: "We'll stay until it does rain." It did, after four innings, with the score 0-0. Well spattered before...
When he sees that she is more woman than child, Dodd realizes he has always loved her. Because he is married they decide on renunciation. When Dodd's socialite wife, who has tried in vain to make him respectable, charges Tessa with unchastity, she collapses from a heart attack. "She said I was your fancy lady," boasts Tessa with childish innocence as Dodd carries her off happily to a little furnished room in Brussels, where she promptly and pathetically expires in his arms...