Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having searched in vain for a banker who would admit telling President Roosevelt that the U. S. could support a public debt of 855,000,000,000 to 870,000,000,000, the Press went at last to Princeton's small, bald "Money Doctor" Edwin Walter Kemmerer, whose twin enthusiasms are the gold standard and shimmy dancing. Such a debt, declared owlish Economist Kemmerer, ''would be very oppressive but doubtless could be carried...
...Roosevelt as a candidate for the State Senate in 1910, nominated him for the Presidency in Chicago in 1932. For more than a year Judge Mack has been counsel to a joint legislative committee investigating New York State public utility holding companies. He it was who, after trying in vain for six months to locate Associated Gas & Electric's Howard Colwell Hopson, aptly quoted from The Scarlet Pimpernel last summer...
...historic program." In this atmosphere of standpattism, Homer Rodeheaver. the late Billy Sunday's song leader, was the life of the party. He had a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South clapping his hands and shouting approval when he intoned: Repeal has failed. It was all in vain. The old saloon is back again, Tho' it's called another name, It's a hellhole just the same, For it damns men in their shame. . . . Another convention favorite, "Buy Dry": will not eat my waffles brown Alongside one who gulps beer down; I'll take...
...vain Labor M.P.'s stormed that the Ethiopian policy of His Majesty's Government is oleaginous to the point that, while arousing the League to impose sanctions, it is largely supplying Italy with oil through the petroleum companies it controls or owns. The Lords: ¶ Spent last week the first $5,000 of an estimated $50,000 which they will spend on the trial of Lord de Clifford commencing this week. Costs must be paid by the County of Surrey because in that unfortunate vicinity hell-raising Edward Southwell Russell, 28, the 26th Baron de Clifford, a descendant...
...Chicago, George Gaw, Chicago's onetime official greeter of celebrities, sued Lake Erie Chemical Co. in vain for $100,000 damages for the loss of the middle finger on his right, greeting hand, when one of the company's tear gas fountain pens exploded in his hand...