Word: vain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always on the lookout for some compliment to TIME which I can show my friends, I have looked in vain for the above-mentioned to appear in your "one and only" newsmagazine...
Little is known of Pavlova's private life, she believed so fervently in keeping it to herself. First sight of Pavlova in repose was startling: her legs were so obvious and so overdeveloped in comparison with her frail body. She took cod-liver oil in vain effort to fatten her trunk. As artist she was as jealous as she was confident of first place. As leader of her troupe she was a benevolent martinet. She bossed them sternly in their dance regimen, nursed them through their personal woes. Before every performance, despite her assurance of success and applause...
...that is exactly what happens here. Four men, whose names we did not get because of an impediment in the speech of the captain (but whom, for purposes of clearness here, we will call Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego) are cast into the Fleming furnace but Victor tries in vain to be the king of Glory. This is the plot...
...vain were the recent excesses of the Nationalist Party in India, the riots and bloodshed, the imprisonment of Ghandi. India's desire for political freedom which has grown for over a century, is pacified. And England, as usual when a concession is inevitable, has yielded with grace. That last minute leniency which is in a large measure accountable for England's success in the handling of her colonial possessions has been timely and judiciously exercised...
...pipes in dulcet tones Manhattan's newest sweet singer, Ogden Nash. You will look in vain among these Hard Lines for one that tells of saddest thought; Poet Nash is cheerfully up-to-date. A determined rhymester, he bends words to his will...