Word: vaines
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...been feeling of late that the ruby of the sunset was only a garnet and the emerald of the sea was but green glass. He has suffered from the "weariness the fever, and the fret. Here, where men sit and hear each other groan." He has sought comradeship in vain. The Jester has been in seclusion, incubating puns on the Shanghai situation. George Bernard Shaw has climbed off the apple cart to mount the band-wagon of reform (thereby adding another name to the firm of Wells, Russell, and Mencken, Ltd., Odd-jobbers Specializing in the Repair of Democracy...
...National Opposition which includes the Fascists and Dr. Alfred Hugenberg's Nationalists, vote-splitting seemed the best strategy. They attempted in vain to collaborate on a candidate. For their candidate the Nationalists and their Steel Helmet faction then chose Colonel Theodore Düsterberg, Deputy Chairman of the Stahlhelm...
...meaning to most of the electors, for the functions of Junior and Sophomore class officers are so lacking as to be virtually unimportant. The Freshman officers serve definite functions in class activities; Senior officers are necessary for Class Exercises and Alumni activities; but Sophomore and Junior officers are as vain as protest against them...
...cinema trade paper last week reported that United States Steel Corp. had loaned $2,000,000 to Tiffany Productions, Inc. (features). Commentators sought in vain for an explanation of this fantastic story. The only link between the two companies is remote: Leonard A. Young, president of Tiffany, is also president of steel-buying L. A. Young Spring & Wire Corp...
...stage, except that Jean (Ina Claire) has been made more important than Polaire (Madge Evans). The picture starts when Jean returns from Europe, eager to make friends with money. Double-crossing her companions, she tries first to steal the aged "fiance" of Schatze (Joan Blondell), then appropriates a vain pianist who has taken a passing fancy to Polaire. Finally she meets the father of Polaire's most devoted admirer and in-veigles him into matrimony. There follows the one scene in which the cinema does not quite measure up to the play; namely, where Schatze and Polaire, over...