Word: vainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Glass Tower (Bavaria-Filmkunst; Ellis) is a big, bareboned West Berlin penthouse, where Lilli Palmer perches like a trapped pigeon, caught in the dual grip of a possessive husband and a plot as paper-thin as strudel crust. Her husband (O. E. Hasse), a vain, autocratic man of means, sees Lilli as a beautiful confirmation of his success. Along comes a handsome German-American playwright (Peter Van Eyck), who reminds Lilli of her former glory as a great actress, persuades her to star in his new drama about a nun who gets raped. Her psychiatrist decides that "somewhere in your...
Many Englishmen, including G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Galsworthy and the Webbs, pleaded in vain that Casement's life be spared. When he was hanged, a storm of anti-British feeling rose among the Irish in the U.S. just at a time when the British were eager to get the U.S. into World War I on their side. Something had to be done and quickly, the British government decided, to discredit the name of Roger Casement. Soon prominent figures on both sides of the Atlantic began to hear strange tales about Casement's scandalous "black diaries...
Stocks, Bonds & Buchwald. British-born Eric Hawkins, who hired on as a copyreader in 1915 after abandoning a vain ambition to box, played up the New York markets, banking on the hunch that this was "must" reading to tourists. This and Columnist Art Buchwald, who walked in one day ten years ago and asked for a job, are the Trib's two most popular features. Roaming the Continent's nightclubs and halls of state, Buchwald gradually assumed the same institutional quality as his employer; his 1953 column explaining Thanksgiving Day to the Trib's 13,000 French...
...time. On the 50th day of the prescribed, 60-day 1955 session, Sam King vetoed the only two Democratic bills. This so disorganized the bewildered Democrats that they squabbled along to the end of the session, had to stop the legislative clock while they fought in vain to override the vetoes. Legally, April 29, 1955 remained April 29th for 28 days...
...this might have endured forever had not West Pakistan's Governor Akhtar Husain paid a visit to Quetta and looked around in vain for a daily paper. For his embarrassed hosts, who laid out Quetta's nine weeklies as a substitute, Husain had a proposal beautiful in its simplicity: "Why not come out on different days of the week so that Quetta has a fresh paper every...