Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ramsay MacDonald is a Scotsman. His inner light has always burned brighter than adversity, criticism or contempt. Like all Scots he is the captain of his soul. Last week, knowing perfectly well that the Empire considers him a traitor to the Labor friends of his youth and a mealymouthed, vain, vaporing shadow at Peace Conferences, Mr. MacDonald looked as he left No. 10 not downcast but happy at the prospect of declining years of ease...
After a full hour of this, Premier Flandin stepped from the rostrum, walked slowly from the Chamber, slumped in a faint in the corridor outside. He was hustled home, put to bed. Not for many hours did he learn that his entire speech had been in vain. Paunchy little Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical Socialists, had leaped in to plead the government's case until long past midnight. It did not change a vote. The Flandin Cabinet was voted...
...cash was transferred from Seaboard's treasury to the Parker treasury-a transfer easily effected because the treasurer of both firms was the same man. Bowen Tufts and associates, according to the testimony of one witness, dumped this cash into the market in a vain attempt to recoup Parker & Co.'s stock losses. Eventually Seaboard Utilities was stripped of nearly all its cash...
...watched the progress of its amendments. Chief of those crop watchers in Washington was the overlord of AAA, Henry Agard Wallace, a Democratic Secretary of Agriculture, son of a Republican Secretary of Agriculture, trying his philosophic best to reach the ends his late father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, sought in vain a dozen years...
...hope that the candidate will answer that question fully. Not that it has any importance, but it's a subject about which I've been trying in vain to uncover a little information for the last thirty years...