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...relief of suffering, anywhere at anytime, is a worthy goal; but to dress it up in a costume and use it for skirt behind which to hide political convictions is to use name of charity in vain. Edward F. Whitney...
...last week, attempts to answer it by other means are preposterous as well as premature and probably in error. Nonetheless, last week a large portion of the U. S. press and public concentrated on doing so. Consensus of innumerable touts and tipsters who make their livelihood from just such vain speculations was that it was practically impossible for any horse at all to win the Derby. Pompoon's alleged fault was lack of stamina; his sire, Pompey, was a famed sprinter but bad at long races and 1¼miles is a long race. Brooklyn and his stablemate Billionaire...
Overflow crowds of Freshmen that for years past made the annual Smoker Harvard's nearest approach to a Black Hole of Calcutta have not struggled for air in vain. The Class of 1940 is moving into Memorial Hall...
...profit motive was responsible for the long delay in Senator Bill Smathers' taking office. During the interval he was drawing $500 a year as a State Senator in New Jersey instead of $10,000 as a U. S. Senator. He had stayed in New Jersey in a vain attempt to help Democratic Boss Hague of Jersey City gain control of the State Senate where the Republicans had a majority of one, with one seat in dispute...
...clapping, was nonplussed but stuck to her strip-tease routine. The next move, she thought, would get them. Sinuously she let fall from her creamy shoulders a vast chiffon cape, then, striding rapidly to the wings, unsnapped her split skirt, showed a shapely thigh just before she disappeared. In vain Stripper Raye waited for the accustomed wild uproar indicating that the audience wanted to see more...