Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Witty, vain, gregarious Curt Riess is a former German journalist who went to Paris when Hitler came in, became U.S. correspondent for Paris-soir in 1934. His U.S. stuff (particularly on Hollywood) was syndicated all over Europe. Now a resident of Manhattan, he is married to an editor of Collier's, writes for the Saturday Evening Post. His friends: Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Thomas Mann, Dorothy Thompson...
...make it safe. And if, by some fault of ours who lived beyond the war, its safety has again been threatened, then the obligation and the duty are ours. It is in our charge now ... to see to it that 'these dead shall not have died in vain...
Sniped gum-champing Edward J. Flynn, Democratic National Chairman: "[The Mayor is] a vain popinjay...
KUIBYSHEV, Russia--German panzer columns prowled along a 35-mile battle line semi-circling MOSCOW in vain search of a weak spot today, reportedly on orders from Adolf Hitler to seize the Soviet capital by Friday, 24th anniversary of the Red Revolution, war dispatches said...
...British Government found good use last week for the remains of Heinkel bombers shot down by the R.A.F. They were dismantled and sent as spare parts to Turkey, which has tried in vain to get parts from Germany for its German-built bombers. The British also sent two shipments of fighter planes. This was news with a double meaning. All summer long Germany and Britain have been bidding for Turkey's economic, and, by extension, political, favors. Britain evidently thought the bidding was closed, that...