Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Until lately the seven o'clock morning bell was practically the only disturbance of slumber that the senior was forced to endure. He protested many times to this, but in vain. Finally he learned to ignore the bell, for it, at least, was regular, and a seemingly necessary evil. But, recently, many seniors have adopted the custom of yelling in concert at an average hour of midnight the one word "Reinhardt" across the Yard, and yelling it in as many keys and as loudly as possible. And, worst of all, men returning from dances at twelve and one o'clock...
...asked for time to consider it, but they say: 'No, jump in; you will have plenty of time to think it over between the falls and the whirlpool.'" At Criccieth in Wales, Mr. George became bitter when he referred to Conservative posters depicting him as a "vain talker": "There is no party from which that charge comes with such ill favor as from the Tory Party. Were they of that opinion from 1914 to 1918? My recollection is that they were rather glad to have this 'vain talker' in charge of State affairs in those days...
...state of panic and arrangements had to be made to save it from disaster; when shells, rifles, machine guns and cannon had to be forged, and great organizations had to be improvised for turning them out at short notice to support our gallant men in the field, the 'vain talker' had his uses...
Every figure in the story of Felix is defined with simple, unerring strokes. No character so much as shoves his nose in that he is not promptly pinned down and held up for inspection. We know them all and like practically all of them- Felix himself, sensitive, delightfully vain, adroit, an artist fundamentally, hugely enjoying a world which has little for him save hard knocks; his mother, capable, heroic, un- questioningly devoted; Grumps, the bibulous Scotch grandfather, one of the most keenly observed and original figures in recent literature; the histrionic and ineffective father; Godfrey, the actor-brother, with...
...special election the Legislature secured the right to meet. Then Mr. Walton, seeing resistance vain, went the Legislators one better ?he ordered them to meet, but specified that it was to devote its power to-annoy exclusively to the Ku Klux Klan. At any rate, the Legislature was called for Oct. 11, with the Governor preparing to fight for his place in the halls of the law givers and the courts of the law definers...