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Carranza & Villa. When the years of revolutionary triumph began to lengthen, Obregon might easily have seized the Presidency. But he stood aside for his friend Venustiano Carranza, bearded, schoolmasterish, vain. When Carranza had had his swig of power and seemed reluctant to pass on the cup, General Obregon ousted him and probably issued the order which resulted in his assassination...
Benito Mussolini also said in Rome: "In vain did others try to steal the glory! I say in a voce of thunder that you, Nobile, you an Italian, wisely guided the Norge to the end of her extraordinary voyage...
Said Man Savidge: "I was vain enough to be pleased that I had a daughter who could be sufficiently interesting to attract a gentleman like Sir Leo. ... I have a jolly good girl for a daughter...
Backer Hartwell observed tersely: that he had made an extended search for a substitute aviatrix to fly the green and red Bellanca, but in vain; that he expected half of the Rasche publicity profits and a position as her manager; that he would not release her unless "any act of moral turpitude should injure her reputation...
...Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back to her beloved Paris, and a Parisian lover, does she come glowingly to life, and then in vain, such is the relentless requirement of her position...