Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were one redeeming feature, if would be pleasant enough to say that here is a moderately entertaining, musical play. But in honesty one must confess that even this one consolation is absent. The costumes are colorful, but that in itself goes but a short way; the music is innocuous, and only one tune, "Play Gypsics", at all demands attention. It has been and gone in popular fancy having had its hey-day a year...
Unlimited Cuts. Seniors in good standing at Princeton are privileged to be absent from as many lectures as they desire, without penalty, for the remainder of the academic year. It is an experiment which Dean Christian Gauss hopes will not be abused...
Next day, Wet Leader Linthicum took what satisfaction he could from a parliamentary victory, forcing the whole House to go on record on a Prohibition issue for the first time this session. But again his antipoison amendment lost, 61 to 283, with 89 members not voting and 91 absent...
...weighted with a man at either end, tumbles neatly, and catches lighted matches in his mouth. He might be compared to Douglas Fairbanks gone incurably insane. So unaccountable are his activities that some people trying to follow him, don't think that he is funny. They had best be absent from Rain or Shine. With meagre notable exceptions it is a wretched show. But for those who like Joe Cook it is heavenly ceremony...
...consummated. Others are possible (TIME, Dec. 5). Mr. Eaton is worth $50,000,000 himself.± He is a partner in Otis & Co., Cleveland, investment bankers.± Only a few years ago, a newcomer to Cleveland, he was preaching in a small Baptist church whenever the regular pastor was absent. His voice remains mellow & resonant. Unostentatiously he gives much money to church needs, hunts with hounds, rears seven children. Although democratic, Otis & Co. employes hold him in greater awe than they do Charles A. ("Charlie") Otis, head of the firm...