Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart for once." cried Jesse Jones to U. S. bankers when they convened in Chicago last September, advising them to sell preferred stock to the R. F. C. and earn a ''double blue eagle." Ever since then the R. F. C. has been trying in vain to persuade some big bank to issue preferred stock. Last week James Reader Leavell, successor to the Brothers George and Arthur Reynolds as head of Chicago's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., decided to accept Mr. Jones's offer to have his bank sell $50,000,000 worth...
...Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain...
Saturday, President Conant delivered his address to the members of the class of 1937; his message was awaited with interest, not in any vain expectation of a revelation of the new President's plans, but more because this first utterance from the depths of the Quincy Street White House was regarded by the students as an indication of the President's general point of view in his dealings with them. This hope was fulfilled on several fronts: in the first place, the President's words showed a genuine and thoroughly tactful desire to establish a friendly and confident relationship between...
...word most descriptive of the island's whole situation. Havana simmered with several hundred master statesmen, scarcely two alike after eight years of pulverizing tyranny. Into the simmering pot, in front of the Presidential Palace, peered Cuba's hungry but critical citizens. They looked in vain for a master cook. Only one ingredient in the pot suited every taste and that was proud resistance to U. S. intervention. The Sergeants. There were the Army's non-commissioned officers, on a spree. They had seen last month how neatly their superior officers led by Col. Horacio Ferrer...
...night attacks the sirens promptly put out every light in Tokyo. The enemy buzzed over a perfectly darkened city, pricked only by purple or red-hooded automobile headlights and red flashlights at important traffic centres. Sato leaned out his dark window, listened in vain for the noise of airplane engines, felt that something big was going...