Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...late Spring in the U. S. Ordinarily demand at the fruit stores begins in April, and exceeds the supply until about July 4. But consumers do not eat bananas in sleet storms and cold weather. This year the banana dealers' yellow bunches dangled under their canvas awnings in vain. Importation into New York by one large company is only about half of normal, while prices on a bunch are down from an average of $4.50 to $3.00. The perplexities of the banana dealers have recently attracted the attention of high finance through the decline of Cuyamel Fruit Co. stock...
...Fuller, a Baptist, was seeking appointment to a Presbyterian pulpit in New York. He was standing before an official conclave of the Presbytery. Dr. Tertius Van Dyke, liberal son of liberal Dr. Henry, endeavored to cut short the harrowing discussion, but in vain. A resolution that "owing to the confusion in the reports of the Committee on Candidates, the examination of Dr. Fuller will be referred back to the Committee on Candidates" was adopted...
...Congress closed. He waited in the President's room, attended by the entire Cabinet except Messrs. Hoover and Davis, ready to consider and sign any last-minute bills that were passed. The Senate chose to filibuster and his visit was largely in vain, although he signed 77 bills. Promptly at 7:00 p. m., the he of closing, maintaining a profound silence, he hastened away to his waiting automobile...
...Right Honorable Jan Christian Smuts, to display every kind of hooliganism. In Durban, 5,000 people foregathered in the Town Hall, most of whom were determined to prevent him from speaking. When the Premier appeared rowdyism was let loose and after facing the multitude for ten minutes in a vain effort to start his speech, he was forced to leave...
...rents and real estate values, which many students of the subject pre dict will be seen this Fall. Until the inflation is taken out of rents and real estate, hopes for "a long period of na tional prosperity" so piously expressed by many business leaders are bound to be vain...