Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...known that Dr. Adler always carries an extra forged passport in the name of "Al Frey" in addition to his own, but Rotterdam police have not. They know Dr. Adler well and one day last August, when he handed them his forged passport by mistake, they arrested him. In vain Dr. Adler continued to protest right up to last week that "it is for use only in Germany and Italy." An unsympathetic Dutch court last week sentenced him to four months in jail...
Telegrams. While Franklin Roosevelt waited in vain for any answer from divine Emperor Hirohito covering the Japanese sinking of the Panay, he received a telegram from Alf Landon. A year ago, Alf Landon promised the President support in matters of international policy. Last week, Mr. Landon took advantage of the Panay sinking to reiterate his pledge...
...unique wastrel against whom the New Life Movement struggled in vain was Chiang Wei-kuo. He is the son of a Japanese waitress & a Chinese official whom Generalissimo Chiang obliged by adopting the lad as his own son. In vain Chiang Wei-kuo was put under the direct control of Mme Chiang. She could do nothing with him. He was sent to Germany, last year suddenly appeared in London and forced the Chinese Delegation to the Coronation of King George VI to get him in on it and on all the best parties...
...music was a reassuring exhibition for devotees and newcomers alike in a large, light-hearted audience. And in her briskly written account of Mediterranean travel, study and U. S. trouping, critics found a key to the pleasures of mime that many of them, had long fumbled for in vain. This key was, simply, vaudeville...
...lived in Yugoslavia 14 years. Powerful because his Slovene Clerical Party was one of the three strong units welded into the present Government Party, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Anton Koroshets, a Jesuit priest, resented Mr. Harrison's July accounts which described the Government's vain attempt to force the unpopular Concordat with the Vatican. Subsequently Premier Milan Stoyadinovitch permitted Mr. Harrison to remain in the country. Last week with Premier Stoyadinovitch in Rome, Acting Premier Koroshets was able to make good his effort to drive Writer Harrison from Belgrade...