Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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slow-footed Borah insisted on phrasing the Prohibition promise his own way. Farmers' Friends kept the convention waiting, and the platform-builders sleepless, with their vain insistence upon a different farm plank (see p. 15). In the end, Senator Smoot pumped all the breath he could into a document containing the following phrases...
...vain M. Valdemaras bristled, protested, even hurled vituperations at M. Zaleski. The Council's dander was now up, and its 14 regular members hastened to vote "yes" unanimously to a resolution so drafted as eventually to confirm Poland in her possession of Vilna...
...rustic bridge. At the gate a servant awaited him eagerly to say that Lorie had cried buckets and was "all broke up," because she had had to go to bed, leaving Hergesell at the party with his blonde. The professor rushes to his darling, comforts her in vain. He alone understood that the blonde had every right to dance on with Hergesell, while Lorie had quite rightly been permitted to dance only once, and that once only in sport. "Lorie's grief was incurable and without rights and should have hidden itself. But as it was a grief without understanding...
...Witness. Author Niles achieved unaccountable permission to inspect gang prisons of the mainland and individual cells on the rockbound islands. She chatted with convicts, and followed the trails so many of them have hacked in vain through the jungle. Everything she saw was evidence of the demoded prison conditions that a twentieth century government tolerates...
...monotony of his existence, be undisturbed, guarded by her sickly sister, the village spinster who envied youth and health and beauty, Adrienne was starved for drama. She could but set the stage-parlor furniture to dust in the morning, geraniums to cut by the garden gate-and wait in vain for the hero. From an upper window she watched for him, a middle-aged neighbor. The sharp ledge cut into her arms, the heavy scent of summer flowers filled her with longing, but her neighbor kept to himself. Adrienne tossed sleeplessly at night, traced listlessly the immutable pattern...