Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy steel wire stretched across the road had forced the last limousine to halt with screaming brakes. One of its occupants was the present Rumanian Minister to the U. S., sleek Charles A. Davila. In vain he tried diplomatic blandishments on the robbers. "Shut up and lie down!" they ordered, brandishing clubs. Diplomatist Davila lay down...
...anticipated, rations insufficient. First Seaman Evans, strongest man of the party, dropped in his tracks, died. Then Lieutenant Oates began to weaken. One night, after they had made camp, Oates went out of the tent, declared he might be gone some time, never came back. But his sacrifice was vain; 177 miles from safety, Scott and two last survivors pitched their last camp, wrote farewell letters, climbed into their frozen sleeping bags, lay down to die. There the search party found them...
...correspondent of the New York Herald Tribune, now a freelance political writer.* Indiana's Dry Senator Arthur Raymond Robinson, a lobby investigator, was piling into the inquiry's printed record these reports, without reading them, when Henry Hastings Curran, A. A. P. A. president, on the witness stand, after vain protestation, remarked: "Well, they'll make a good exhibit over in the House...
Last week Governor Kohler went on trial at Sheboygan, after carrying his case in vain to the State Supreme Court on technicalities of jurisdiction (TIME, Feb. 17). The courtroom scene generated political impulses that fanned over the whole State. The trial marked the commencement of the 1930 campaign. If Brother Phil could put Governor Kohler out of office by this trial, it was agreed that a LaFollette would again be Governor of Wisconsin...
...When the price rose on dry weather reports, the Kelloggs sold Government wheat heavily, took a profit, helped to produce the next slump, arouse the ire of growers. This month Stabilization Corp. held its first annual meeting, reduced Mr. Kellogg to a vice president. Selected for president after a vain search among big grain men for a No. 1 executive was one George Sparks Milnor, an able, honest, small-scale miller of Alton...