Word: vaines
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...Great Lady this glamorous career of sin and scandal becomes as exciting as a sleeping draught. In vain Actress Norma Terris, as Madame Jumel, flaunts her jewels and warbles her high notes. In vain Actress Irene Bordoni leers, winks, ooh-la-las as she has done for over 25 years. In vain Great Lady's, sets grow more & more lavish, its costumes more & more lacy. For the music is stock and tame, the humor callow and vulgar; the acting is wooden, the directing leaden, the writing brassy. Great Lady is the season's gaudiest bore...
...sharp-toothed Federal crime code behind it; the improvement of U. S. prisons, notably the creation of Alcatraz. With special pride he pointed to the new rules for civil procedure in Federal courts (TIME, Sept. 26), which the American Bar Association had for 25 years tried in vain to obtain. Of all his monuments, these rules, he said, were his favorite...
Compared with her, young Greene seems vain, petty, irritating in his sanguine belief in his genius. But when his patron ships him to Italy-where Sidley is gelded and Greene stabbed-his story picks up again, and he begins his lifelong vacillations between periods of debauchery and periods of sobriety and work...
...only Harvard team that lost Saturday was the sturdy band of Crimson athletes which besieged in vain the Yale goalposts. Yowis of frustration were to be heard when the men from Cambridge hurled themselves against uprights that turned out to be made of steel reinforced with concrete...
...Scholarship was established to honor the memory of the two Ames boys, who were lost at sea in a vain effort to rescue their father, Robert Russell Ames '07, in 1935. The committee making the award was composed of Mrs. Ames, mother of the two boys, Dean Hanford, and the president and treasurer of the Council...