Word: absente
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited. At the last minute, lest the Paderewskites should stage some really serious demonstration, Dictator Pilsudski sent puppet President Moscicki to the unveiling. He drove with Mrs. Wilson and the Baruch family through streets of cheering citizens. As President Moscicki came abreast...
...leave be extended to and including Dec. 31, 1932." Dr. Robert Eckles Swain will continue as acting president; Dr. Wilbur will continue to draw no salary. Opponents of the plan to abolish Stanford's lower division (TIME, June 8) took comfort in reflecting that while Dr. Wilbur is absent the plan will not be consummated...
...crowds who scrambled to buy the furnishings last winter (TIME, Dec. 8) only a few desultory bidders appeared at "Villa Lewaro." Their dim enthusiasm became dimmer when the famed $25,000 organ in the house refused to play. The housekeeper who alone knew the secret of its operation was absent. When nothing better than a $50,000 bid could be aroused for the entire property, a lawyer for the estate bid it at $60,000. He spoke vaguely of making the estate a hotel for Negroes, or a "national cultural shrine...
...Francisco; Sugar Merchant Wallace McKinney Alexander, past president of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce; Board Chairman Frank Bartow Anderson of the Bank of California; Publisher Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times; Judges John Thomas Nourse Jr. and Marcus Cauffman Sloss; President Paul Shoup of Southern Pacific Railway. Absent will be Trustee Herbert Hoover...
...Albright and Dorothy Jordan convince one of their worthiness from the start. The former was particularly as home in his role of the young wastrel, having appeared before Boston audiences in the stage version of the story last winter. The picture also marks the return of Thomas Meighan, long absent, to the screen. The comeback of a one-time favorite is always a precarious matter, but it looks as though Meighan might make the grade if he is given roles so congenial as that of the Irish trainer in Young Sinners...