Word: vaines
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...Nazi blow was struck at about the same time as the main attacks were biting into southeastern Yugoslavia, in Rupel Pass. There the Greeks fought hard, using the same tactics of cross fire as had proved so deadly against the Italians in the Pindus Mountains. But the fight was vain: the Nazi break-through in the Vardar Valley, and the prong which had then turned eastward towards Salonika, threatened the troops' rear. It became necessary to abandon Salonika...
...will to resist did not exist in the souls of Europeans, it would, be vain to suppose that an American Army could provide freedom for peoples who will not fight for it. If, on the other hand, the will to resist is there, as indeed it is and ever more fiercely, then we can rest assured that the best troops for fighting in Europe will be Europeans fighting for their own homes, their own altars, their own flags, their own hope of life itself. . . . For every British soldier landed in Europe a thousand other soldiers come forward from among...
...around mid-Manhattan bars, drinking beer with them. In 1927 he bought two papers in Marion, one Republican, one Democratic, and settled down to the life of a country editor. He was a big shot in the town, and the side of Sherwood Anderson that was sociable, a little vain and flashy, had its innings...
Totalitarianism was seen in this country by Dr. Dirk H. Vain Der Stucken of Andover Academy who believed that we were giving "those inside" powers which might become dictatorial...
...four partners in United Artists, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks (who died a few months later) were no longer making films. Charlie Chaplin brooded on his art, once in a long while turned out a picture. Producer Goldwyn felt that his films were carrying United Artists, had tried in vain (with British Producer Alexander Korda) to acquire the rest of its stock...