Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Much of Wall Street's history during 1924 is bound up with Mr. G. F. Baker's vain attempt to take a vacation. Mr. Baker is too important a factor in financial affairs to remain long away from the dingy brick building at the corner of Wall Street and Broadway which houses the First National Bank. Mr. Baker is now en route from Europe-another at- tempted vacation ruined. Again, the cause for his return is the great Van Sweringen railroad mergers. The "Lords of Erie" have in their day been greatly varying types of men. No greater...
...Major Robert W. Imbrie and another American by the name of Melin Seymour, in a carriage. Before the fountain they stopped and took some pictures. Immediately the crowd rushed upon the Americans, crying out that they were Bahaists. They dragged them from the carriage, cut them, beat them. In vain did native servants of missionaries explain that the Americans were not Bahaists. The police were powerless to stop the infuriated mob. Four hours later, Vice Consul Imbrie was dead; Seymour was taken to a hospital in a critical condition...
...whole world, witnessing the ease in the American money markets and our superabundance of gold, has been watching for our commodity prices to rise under "gold inflation." Thus far, however, it has watched in vain. Indeed, according to the U. S. Department of Labor indices of wholesale prices for June, commodity prices in this country were falling instead of rising. The index weighted index number, which includes 404 commodities, fell to 144.6 for June, from 146.9 in May and 153.5 for June, 1923. It has declined steadily since February, 1924, when...
...this list of clients has ever controlled, or fancied that he could control, my personal or my political conscience. I am vain enough to imagine that no one ever will...
...proudly from a tall mast. A Japanese, watched by an unsuspecting Tokyo "bobbie," hauled the flag down, cut it from the halyards with a razor, crumpled it up, fled. The "bobbie" suddenly came to, realized the gravity of the man's action, made off after him -but in vain; his quarry escaped...