Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...else would, as witness what the majority of men marry! I challenge this brute to specifically define a beautiful woman. What are the ingredients-the formula? . . . Did it ever occur to this deep-thinking student of feminine loveliness to wonder why ugly women are ugly? That his own vain sex should take the blame would never enter his head. The ugly woman might well chant: Who made us what we are today...
...clambered a single big bull seal, settled himself oleaginously upon a rock. Flyer Petre drew bead, fired straight & true. The seal shivered, shook, flipped, flopped, floundered to the edge of the rock, plunked into the water with a permanent plop. The three huntsmen grappled for him, but grappled in vain. Sadly they set sail for Manhasset to wait another year...
...What do we think of England?" she said in answer to a correspondent's question. "What would any country think of another which held it in subjugation? It is vain to expect justice from a race so blind and drunk with the arrogance of power,* the bitter prejudice of race and creed and color, drunk moreover with abysmal ignorance...
...chance fluctuation, but rather it is their duty to participate actively in the conscious formation of intelligent opinion. that was the type of presidential leadership which Roosevelt and Wilson gave, and of which Baker is capable; and that is the type of leadership which the nation has sought in vain from the While House for eleven years...
Always suspecting him and on his heels is Lionel as Guerchard, police detective, who constantly surrounds large mansions in the dead of night with his cordons of gendarmes, stalks suspiciously about empty corridors adjacent to ballrooms, and in vain does his best to make the complacent yet devilishly clever Duke feel uncomfortable. From under Guerchard's very eyes necklaces and diamonds are whisked off a dozen ladies at a dance, and a whole great hall full of portraits of "ancestors bought cheap" and marble busts is robbed by a patrol of Arsene Lupin's police-clad confederates. The final insult...