Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...counsel to AAA he was also a thorn in the paw of sturdy George Peek, his boss. Mr. Peek protested to Secretary Wallace. In vain, for Counsel Frank had Felix Frankfurter's approval and the support of Dr. Tugwell. So Mr. Peek, instead of using his legal counselor, hired his own lawyer out of his own pocket. But Thorn Frank was too pointed for his flesh. The time came when Mr. Peek gave Mr. Wallace the choice of accepting his own resignation or Frank's. With the advice of Dr. Tugwell and the consent of the President...
...Roosevelt has plenty of endorsement. What he lacks is money ($150,000 for prizes) which he has sought in vain from such tycoons as Edsel Ford and Philip Knight ("P. K.") Wrigley. Proposed route: Washington to Miami and the Canal Zone, down the West Coast of South America to Santiago (Chile), across the Andes to Buenos Aires, up the East Coast to Panama and Mexico City, thence to San Francisco and across...
...almost always deadlocked, and a ninth impartial member can be called in only by a majority vote. Back to NRA went the Jennings case, and Mr. Davis again unlimbered his big gun, this time definitely calling a convention for Jan. 28 in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore. In vain did Presidential Secretary Louis Howe and Secretary of Labor Perkins work for a compromise...
...trip-hammer crashed down on another cylinder. Nothing happened. A man attacked another piece of the substance with a blowtorch. It simply sizzled. Red-hot irons bored holes in other pieces and still nothing happened. Other lumps were dropped into furnaces. They disintegrated harmlessly. Testers tried in vain to make the stuff explode with blasting caps. But when a stick of it was detonated with a dynamite cartridge, it exploded with satisfactory uproar & violence...
...sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably portrayed by Mr. Fields and there is a sequence in which he reveals the vain attempt of an harassed husband to secure a bit of rest a mid the confusions of the back porch. It's a film which is worth seeing, but Mr. Fields deserves better...