Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Times next day: "Mr. White's remarks in this instance are unfortunate. ... A committee similar to Mr. White's could have pulled any number of smart tricks to get us to send the fifty destroyers to Germany or Italy, and their efforts would have been worse than vain." After the last war, the Times pointed out, a myth grew up that the U. S. went to war, not out of "the clear-sighted recognition of the need of defeating Germany at that time," but because it had been tricked by propaganda, et al. Said the Times reprovingly...
...professional bondsman, softspoken, paunchy Ed McNew was quite an elusive figure to Knoxville citizens. For months before his crime the press had denounced his influence with judges and police, had tried in vain to get his picture. Then one night a Knoxville Journal photographer, lean, bald Howard Jones, cruised by Ed McNew's office, flashed a bulb, sped away with a snapshot...
...favor of the production. Robert Keith gives a generally delightful impression of Dickens with all his virtues and not a few of his faults. We are introduced to Dickens the courageous, Dickens the admirable, Dickens the lovable; but we may also catch glimpses of Dickens the proud and vain. Above all we get a clear insight into the struggles of a man whose sympathies and view of life were not those of the dominant forces of his day. And however successful his crusade on behalf of the "Oliver Twists" may seem to us, we see also his personal defeat...
...gadgeteer. Once he fixed a radio after an expert had tinkered in vain eight hours. He wins photographic contests, chats over the radio incognito, and is often to be seen testing the country's roads in the saddle of a motorcycle. When he finds a bumpy stretch, he gives the local boss holy hell...
...John Chapman bought a publishing house, and later bought the great, liberal Westminster Review. Chapman, says Author Haight, was vain, humble, shrewd, generous, a quack and a reformer. "Though he refused to publish a novel containing an objectionable love scene, he maintained in the heart of mid-Victorian London a household no novelist would then have dared to describe...