Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Significance. All this merchandising effort was not in vain. The adverse trend up to 1935 was definitely checked. This year's ice sales are estimated at 9% above 1935's. But the effort that checked the trend has not reversed it. In 1926 some 1,500,000 iceboxes were sold; in 1936, best recent year, only 600,000, and in 1936 2,000,000 electric "iceboxes" were sold...
Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b. Mrs. Pawle, blonde, voluptuous, thirtyish, nymphomaniac, is the wife of Alan's doctor, who is a lanky, cynical sadist. The scene of Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From...
...student, then, is in a much more favorable position in regard to his purchases than were his predecessors not so many years ago. True, transportation facilities have been greatly improved but, alas, too late. Today there is the taxi, the subway, the automobile. They are in vain. Happily, there is also the new and square Harvard Square. And for this pleasant situation, the Coop is largely responsible...
...rejoicing of foreign opponents of appeasement like Sagittarius and for the dismay of French ones like radical Author Louis Aragon (Bells of Basel, Residential Quarter). Red Author Aragon was among the first to be called up, sent to the Front. The French are civilized. Search France in vain for concentration camps full of opposition leaders. These worthies were last week given every consideration, including the privilege of fighting-and dying-for France in front-line trenches...
...most of the jokes about needing elbowroom. (His favorite was the story that when he learned of a new neighbor 70 miles away he turned to his wife Rebecca, declared: "Old woman, we must move, they are crowding us.") Fact is, says Biographer Bakeless, Boone sought elbowroom in the vain hope of finding a new country where he could make a fortune. His jokes tried to conceal his ambition and his frustration...