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...vain to suppose that our problems can be dealt with by rallying the people to some crusade that can be expressed in a symbol, a phrase, a set of 16 principles, or a program. If that is what progressives are looking for today they will look in vain...
...Berlin Cinemimic Chaplin had his troubles. Day after his arrival the Communist Young Guard printed an apocryphal message from the comedian: "My greetings and all my sympathies are with the Communist Youth of Germany." In vain Chaplin protested that he had made no such statement, had no interest in politics. Nationalist papers roared that this was "unwarranted meddling with Germany's internal affairs." Hitlerites, convinced that Chaplin is a Jew, marched up & down, roaring defiance, before the swanky Hotel Adlon where he was staying. A crowd of Communists, more practical, threatened to smash all the windows in the Adlon unless...
...medical man can be vain. . . . He sometimes must come to a realization of his own smallness when he stands by, impotent to save. . . . Yet some are. [Vanity] creeps up into them through some mousehole or other...
...great generation passed with the death of Ella Wendel, last of a truly New York family. In Ella a long line of men and women concentrated all their traditional reverence and single-minded passion for property in a vain attempt to perpetuate their ideals in an alien world...
...what took him from hawking newspapers in Indianapolis to the top of the largest U. S. newspaper chain (now 25 strong). It failed to get him along on Old Joe Pulitzer's Post-Dispatch, where as an assistant telegraph operator he once demanded a $3 raise in vain. But he left Pulitzer and not many years later was confronting Old Man Scripps on the latter's ranch at Miramar. Calif. Part of the Scripps plain-people complex was plain clothes. Roy Howard has always liked fancy clothes and at this first meeting with his employer...