Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whee, whee", cried my little roommate leaping to his feet, the vigorous fellow, "Whee, whee." At which sudden debacle I ran to Aunt Emma's sole contribution to our happy home and brought him the smelling salts. It was in vain. He persisted; insisted; resisted. So lowering him gently into the bathtub I discovered his secret...
...history, literature, and economic theory. He may find stern, simple dishes in the fields of science and engineering, or he may delight a delicate fastidiousness with the nicer arts of music, painting, and sculpture. But the physically famished, the Philistine who suffers only from an empty belly, will find vain the search for sustenance of a similarly satisfying and pleasing nature. True, he may pick up here and there bits of dubious desirability, such as even the darkest age would have been ashamed to feed its intellectual beggars, but where, oh where, shall he turn for the dainty side dish...
ANTHOLOGIES, notably elastic things, are usually indicative of the anthologist's turn of mind; every reader hopes that somewhere in a collection of verses, stories, plays--whatever be the subjects--he will discover the compiler's preference--some certain favorite, some especial fancy. But such an ambition is in vain as far as Professor Gay's "Riverside Book of Verse" is concerned. The entire range of the selections is even, balanced, and proportionate. From the opening "Cuckoo Song" (which also heads another well know anthology, "The Oxford Book of English Verse") to the modernism of Miss Lowell's "Lilacs" there...
...bridge of the Cincinnati stood the heavy-jowled boss of Chicago. Glum, pouting, he clutched in his hand the manuscript of a wet and undelivered oration. In vain he sought the attention of crowds toiling on the levees. Had he ventured too near, shotguns would have banged and rifles crashed. The wash of his steamers menaced tottering dikes...
...Concerts of Boston, to be held this year between May 2 and July 2, date back to the earliest stages of Boston's musical history. They are indeed as much a part of Boston as the Common or the golden-dome of the State House. One would hunt in vain in other cities for anything just like the Pops...