Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to marry him because it might spoil their friendship, and Jane Matthews (Jean Arthur), who refused because she was in love with his best friend, are shown as childishly innocent, this bow to censorship does not seriously impair the picture's conception of its hero as a vain, generous, clever, sentimental bon vivant, capable of committing suicide by eating too many oysters. It is a warm and genial period piece which reaches its maximum distinction in that scene in which Edward Arnold, making the most of one of the fattest parts that it has ever been the good...
...Bureau's activities against their clients, frightened liberals who see in the Bureau the material for a U. S. Cheka, and others, not all of them outside the Department of Justice, who are jealous of Director Hoover's success and political immunity. These call him everything from a vain peacock to a vulgar gum-shoer. And to this sort of charge, Director Hoover has one reply...
...Government to let itself be sued, the virtual impossibility of collecting reparations from Washington. Such might be the facts, General Justo admitted, but he would find a way to get the "damned Yanquis" yet, and anyone else who took Argentina's unsullied and inviolate name in vain. With extreme satisfaction the President finally thought up and signed his new decree...
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...decorated in the War and now a Field Marshal. The Hungarian military code of honor demanded that Soldier Gömbös give Civilian Eckhardt satisfaction, as he has already done for many another man. But Politician Gömbös, as realistic as he is vain, might be seriously compromised by a duel. For as Premier it is his uncongenial duty to enforce the Hungarian law against duelling. Gömbös asked the advice of the venerable papa of Hungarian politics. Regent Admiral Nicholas de Horthy. Thereupon he accepted the challenge but had his seconds...