Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fabulous will-o'-the-wisp, that ultima Thule of all cribbage players, the "29 hand." It is to crib fans what the hole-in-one is to the golfer, the 13-spade hand to the bridge player. . . . Three generations of our family watched and waited for it, in vain, till on a rainy night in the winter of '32, when playing with my husband before the traditional blazing logs, I picked up my hand. After the discard, I held 5D, S, C and Jack H. Tensely, I said: "Careful, now. If you cut me the 5 of hearts...
...this mad world of frustrations and disappointments, I have not lived in vain. I have held the 29 hand and can die in peace...
...Conte di Savoia's gangplank touched a Manhattan pier, a man in black darted aboard. Confused, he peered in vain through the crowd for the person he expected. "Here she is!" chorused the crowd. Blushing, Finnish Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar Procope rushed to greet his fiancee, Margaret Katherine Mary Shaw of York, England (TIME, March 25). They were married two days later in Fairfax...
...people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they may be as bad as Vigil in the Night. Or they may be pedestrian and pretentious like...
...musical youngling was throwing over his counterpoint for Stravinskian grunts & groans. To be caught in public with a pleasant tune was as embarrassing to a composer as to be caught without his pants. Every cacophony known to man was rooted out and set to music. Audiences shivered, but in vain...