Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France was beaten on his home ground. Yet he managed to collect sufficient votes - 16,900 - to disturb the Hoover managers. What they could not explain was why so many anti-Hoover votes had been cast by Republicans who well knew they were throwing their ballots away on a vain candidate. President Hoover had won but he had not - as Cartoonist Edmund Waller Gale of the Los Angeles Times elaborately suggested {see cut) - vacuum-cleaned his absurd opponent as thoroughly as his Maryland friends had expected. The France nuisance value still remained and Maryland looked like a doubtful State...
...admittedly easier to critize than to offer a remedy. A parking garage for University members would go far to relieve the pressure, and in the great days of yore there was wealth, and men who gave thereof for building endowments. Today that is perhaps a vain dream. If so, it would at any rate be inexpensive and humane to have the problem surveyed by a student of city-planning. Something might come of it, if he avoided being hit by the Lechmere Limited. Nicholas Healy...
...disgruntled multitude commenced to throw cushions, empty beer bottles, bananas, oranges, etc., some almost nailing Pickett-and with the danger, noise, confusion and fatigue, Pickett released all holds and bit the dust instead of the bull's nose. The bull, fortunately for Pickett, also addled, made one vain pass at him prone on the sanded arena but was diverted from further attempts by the maneuvering cowboys; thus ended the humiliating scene, as regards Pickett's part of it, a grand fiasco-the nearest approach of Pickett's crowd was "throwing the bull" figuratively instead of literally...
...additional points all somewhat vague and advanced in the name of "World Peace": 1) suppression of restrictions on international trade: 2) relief of the Danubian countries; 3) revision of "peace treaties responsible for the restiveness of peoples who may cause new wars"; 4) "renunciation of overfrequent conferences which arouse vain hopes...
...under the House bill would net the U. S. $25 and run the total charge up to $30.50. Security experts predicted that such a Federal tax would drive the public from the market and stockbrokers into retirement. The day the House adopted (207-to-39) this levy over the vain protests of New York Congressmen, the stockmarket slumped badly. To prevent evasion the House tagged on an amendment to make the tax applicable to stock deals for U. S. citizens executed outside the country...