Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many a long month, the ladies of the land, led by the estimable Lady Rhondda, have sought to soften their lordships' hearts, but in vain...
...last week the indefatigable Van Sweringen brothers (of Cleveland) labored, and not in vain. In their bulging bag of railroads reposed the Nickel Plate, Erie, C. & O. and Hocking Valley, but they continued to gun for the Pere Marquette. Chairman...
...Selves vowed he had not heard the insult. This angered still more the Left Senators, who, headed by shrill voices from the ministerial seats, began to call for de Selves' resignation. In vain did the latter try to pacify the irate graybeards and others less bewhiskered; finally he was forced to put on his hat, thus suspending the session. A motion to transfer to le Panthéon, last resting place of France's great men, the bones of Jean Jaurés, Socialist, who was assassinated on the eve of the outbreak of the War, was passed...
...memory does not lead me into error, the City of Bologna alone has given 46 dead to our cause. Let us remind all those who are forgetful of them. Let us evoke them all. one by one, those unforgettable comrades of ours. Has so much blood been shed in vain? Fascist Bologna cries out to me its passionate, fiery "No." Long live Fascismo...
...Baker's vain attempt to take a vacation...