Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...charge that science has outrun itself and that it has brought more woe and pain and disorder than happiness, comfort, and order is almost exclusively made by vain people whose failure to understand the simplest techniques has produced an inferiority and a defense...
...lack of equipment, treachery within, discounting also British amateurishness and unpreparedness, the German campaign was a masterpiece of organization as well as cunning surprise. Military men in other countries snapped mental salutes to its organizer and leader. Yet the U. S. Army, for one, searched its Intelligence dossiers in vain to find out something about...
...Council somewhere in France. Ex-First Lord Duff Cooper recalled the historical past of the German people "under the perjured, perverted Frederick, miscalled 'The Great'; under the mountebank, bulky Bismarck with his treble voice, his shifty diplomacy, his forged telegrams and his lust for conquest; under the vain cripple, Hohenzollern, who was, himself, the slave of the half-crazy Ludendorff, who so loathed Christianity that he worshipped Thor and Odin." After getting his breath, Orator Duff Cooper continued fortissimo: "But never did the face of Germany assume so villainous or vile an aspect as under . . . this little gang...
...still his best role-far better than his too-muscular Hamlet (whom Evans makes into more of a Great Dane than a melancholy one), far better suited to his talents than his not-deeply-stained-enough Falstaff. "A rough draft of Hamlet," Richard has been called; and though the vain, foppish English king lacks the charm and nobility of the Danish prince, both love words and fear action, both procrastinate, both are full of self-pity and self-mockery...
...pray their labor may not be in vain and that their victory will open the way toward the new world we are endeavoring to build-that hate-free, greed-free, fear-free world for which every one of us longs." Secret will be kept the date on which the new Governor General will sail to Canada this spring...