Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smirka" said the swarthy costumer. We looked puzzled until his clowning Danish assistant brought fourth tubes of make-up. After a few vain efforts which had to be corrected in the dim light of the wings, we descended once again to the stage, this time feeling more properly a part of the bustling company...
About 60 people have tried to obtain University parking space in vain, and have been placed on a waiting list. Trottenberg was unable to predict what will happen if they fail to get a space. "A few on the list will probably be able to get into the lots," he said, "but we won't know what will be done about the others until after the questionnaires come...
...Yang a byword and a hissing in every corner of the empire. At last there was a revolution. The emperor's own guard put the tyrant to death, and demanded the life of Yang Kwei Fei as well. The emperor, desperate, begged them to spare her, but in vain. She was hanged with her own silk scarf from a young plum tree. "Oh God!" cried the emperor, his heart broken, when they brought her body to him. "Will this bring peace to my people...
Normal Vane, apparently a newcomer top the craft of playwriting, sets up his characters with contrived dialogue and them with their actions knocks them down again. The vain, colorful husband number one tells lies and most of the audience understands why; he is so pitiful that he should inspire our sympathy; but in the end he goes away unrewarded. The wife, frustrated in her quest for security, thrives on honesty so it is natural to assume that she once was in love with him; but there is never any hint of this. Husband number two, attentive and mild-mannered...
...natives gives The Nun's Story the warm glow of Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life," and probably brought Gabrielle close to peace of mind. But once, when she learned that three men were caught in quicksand and rushed out of the convent in a vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into the difference between religious vocation and mere doing good. "Not only did you leave the convent without permission," said Mother Mathilde, "but . . . you failed also in charity . . . I might have wished . . . to assign Sister Aurelie to that...