Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monde (Michele Morgan). But the vehicle is unimportant; around the character of Francoise--portrayed by Miss Morgan with an almost psychological profundity amazing for her seventeen years--the interest is centered. Not beautiful except in certain poses, she is nevertheless very appealing, and although her character is at once vain, cruel, tender, and generous, she succeeds in making it credible. If Charles Boyer is overshadowed, it is because the script was so constructed, not because of any weakness in his performance; and the minor characters--even the impossibly naive Gilbert (Robert Manuel) and the eccentric, hardly credible Robert (Jean Louis...
...ever say anything positive about Hitler? Is it not great enough a deed to have united, without bloodshed, all the Germans (since Charlemagne thousands of great Germans have fought for the idea in vain), to have saved us from another inflation, to have given work to all our workless...
...been all sacrifice for Harvard this winter, as Plan E lies in the graveyard and town animosity has reached an all time high. The spectacle is sad; but, if it serves as an example and warning to Dartmouth, Harvard's suffering has not been entirely in vain...
...will remain faithful to his own principles and own friends. . . . Don't forget that a part of the policy of Franco's supporters is the recovery of Gibraltar from Britain." The British Government's epitaph, asserted scornful Sir Archibald, should be "We have eaten dirt in vain...
...consuming personal ambition had been thwarted. In New York he had campaigned several times in vain to be elected mayor or governor; his papers could make or break small officials, but they never got Hearst farther than two unspectacular terms in the House. In 1922 Al Smith refused to run on the State Democratic ticket with him and at last Hearst knew he would never be President. And so after 27 years in the East he moved back to California and began to surround himself with a grandeur that no other private citizen has ever matched in U. S. history...