Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holder of the ticket with numbers most nearly corresponding to the date of the first suicide from the new bridge, the age, weight, height of the victim. Angry police found plenty of holders who had bought tickets for 50¢ but searched in vain for the sellers. Coroner Leonardo, remembering that in a similar lottery at Niagara Falls a corpse had been placed in the gorge to "throw" the prize, promised that when the first suicide was committed he would keep the victim's specifications a deep secret...
...tricks that are vain...
...matured felonious little plans as "wagon bouncer," small-time "chiseler," labor terrorizer, robber, murderer, narcotic smuggler, and leader of a "mob" in liquor traffic, he becomes at least deserving of notice in the news. Yesterday showed that if he can acquire a nickname, be twenty-three times arrested in vain, and attain a certain facility in absorbing and dodging lead, he may be judged worthy of even top-column notice in Boston's most conservative paper...
...patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft was chief mourner...
...losses, if any. attending the readjustment to normal conditions after the War are more definitely known." In the same spirit, he told shareholders last spring that if the $5 rate should have to be reduced "then all the work and planning of your management will have been in vain...