Word: vaines
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...Abandoned. From his office at the Vatican, slim, sensitive-fingered Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli kept assuring German Catholics through statements to the Roman Press that their enforced political sacrifices were not in vain...
...vain knife-faced French Minister Georges Bonnet fumed. Waiting for the President, he missed the Golden Arrow De Luxe Express to Paris, missed all the afternoon expresses and finally left London at 11 p. m. to toss all night on the Channel with a cabinet meeting in Paris scheduled as soon as he should arrive...
...vain Professor Moley said on sailing. "I am going to make myself useful and furnish background for the Delegation." London whispers that Professor Moley, "The Isolationist," was coming to supersede Secretary Hull, "The Internationalist," dinned louder and louder until they beat like African war drums on the U. S. Delegation's sensitive ears...
Meeting over cups of ceremonial tea the Japanese Cotton Spinners' Federation voted unanimously to boycott raw Indian cotton. In vain Japan's rheumy-eyed Finance Minister, withered Viscount Korekiyo Takahashi, protested that "any boycott is to be deprecated." He was called "weak" by an irate Tokyo press. In their bitter reaction against Britain, Japanese last week exuberantly acclaimed and feted the U. S. cruiser Houston, first courtesy call paid by the U. S. Asiatic flagship in Japanese waters in five years...
...semi-retired financier. Cyrus Eaton disappeared from the headlines as completely as if he had died. Last week bushy-browed old President Bishop was making a last stand against his creditors' determination to sell what remained of Continental's shriveled assets. Week before he sought in vain to enjoin Chase National from auctioning off the stocks pledged for a $27,000,000 loan...