Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rambles through his part with a rhythmic ease that is restful to watch, now calling up a grimace, now elevating his voice, now twitching a finger or two. His is the center role, and he builds it up with a sort of vacillating adroitness--ever spurred on by vain ambition and pride, ever retarded by conceit and a weakness for cards--until the very shabbiness of the plot finally at the end wears through its dexterously constructed exterior, and the whole falls off into a gently exhilarating decline, both pleasing and agreeable...
Since the death of Jacksonian democracy the agrarian interests of the country have labored under the constant domination of the industrial and have swayed from one party to the other in a vain attempt to find a permanent resting place. The political subjugation of agriculture has been fully reflected by every administration since the Civil War. All efforts have been directed toward the encouragement of industry. The periodic uprisings of the farmers have been staved off by temporary palliatives. This policy has failed dismally since the World War, and the present situation of the farmer is the most serious problem...
...White House this spring has apparently been called off by President Roosevelt, according to the United Press. The affair, announced yesterday by Edward F. Taft '04, secretary of the class, is supposed to have been cancelled a month ago. The United Press attempted last night in vain to secure confirmation of the cancellation through Marvin F. McIntyre and Stephen T. Early, secretaries at the White House, for President Roosevelt had retired for the evening...
Because of the necessity of effecting economics in the local postal system, Harvard men will no longer enjoy the benefits of an afternoon mail delivery on Wednesday. No longer will they spend that afternoon enraptured by the honeyed words of an epistle from "her". In vain will they stand watch by their respective letter boxes waiting for "that" letter. Stern economy has decreed that it shall not come...
...annals of medicine. One day in January Dr. Michou sat down in his office chair, leaped up with a 1½-in. piece of hypodermic needle buried in his fundament. Because he could not reach around to treat himself, he called in Dr. George S. Foster who probed in vain. By last fortnight the needle had worked 2½ in. into Dr. Michou's flesh and was approaching his hip-joint. Dr. Foster had an idea. Calling General Electric laboratory officials in Lynn, Mass., he asked them to build a huge electric magnet...