Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vain another onetime Peasant Premier, M. Vaida-Voevod, pleaded that Mme Lupescu is not the political trouble-maker she is universally supposed to be. "During my premiership she caused no trouble and I obtained the King's promise to send her away," M. Vaida-Voevod illogically explained. "After her passport and a supply of money had been made ready the King changed his mind...
...have trouble with her children. Her daughter Liza (Lila Lee, oldtime cinemactress trying for a legitimate comeback) is a bobbed-haired nymphomaniac consorting with a London gossip writer who carries cocaine and an automatic. And Daughter-in-law Sybil (Frieda Inescort) thinks she is understood only by a vain popular novelist. Shrewd Lady Jane puts Sybil and the novelist in adjoining bedrooms outside which a nightingale is singing. As Lady Jane expected, they take advantage of propinquity. And as she also expected, flighty Sybil is sorely disappointed that her spiritual affinity has carnal appetites. To send Sybil back...
...Silence!" roared loud speakers, but in vain. The crowd kept thundering cheer on cheer while Herr Hitler received ten athletes said by Dr. Goebbels to be "the last relay of 150.000 German runners who have raced all week from every part of the Fatherland with scrolls affirming that the Saar is German...
...little contact with home. Followed brief periods of teaching and tutoring. Rolfe wanted to be a Catholic priest; that desire followed him through life. When he was 27 he studied for the priesthood at Oscott College, but was discharged for his unconventional ways, his irresponsibility. He was considered talented, vain, sarcastic, a poseur, a liar. Nevertheless there were those who believed in him. He was given another chance and sent to Rome to study for the priesthood in Scots College. Dismissed after five months for "lack of Vocation'' and as a general nuisance, Rolfe returned to England claiming...
...Chancellor Schuschnigg squeeze the 'Iron Mountain" for a cool $70,000. According to a Heimwehr manifesto, "If the Government fails to make its fist felt by the all-powerful Director Apold of Alpine Montan Gesellschaft, all the Government's efforts against the Nazis in Styria will prove vain...