Word: absenting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...placid, warm afternoon, but the farmers and press correspondents (who were sitting just below the speakers' stand) listened carefully. Said Senator Reed: "Some of you farmers think agriculture is sick. Drs. Coolidge and Hoover, however, assured us the entire country is prosperous. If this species of absent treatment were effective, everybody would be happy." Senator Reed began to talk about the Federal Reserve Act; said he: "The credit for this great banking system must be given largely to Senator Glass and to Woodrow Wilson. ... I did some work, which, whether valuable or not, I would rather have appraised...
...brothers, comrades and coworkers, have a quaint avocation. One of them (not always the same one) is constantly being chosen to leave home. When he goes, the three remaining brothers are in the station, on the dock or at the flying field. They wave goodbye, and, when the absent one returns, he finds them once more at the field, dock, or station, pre-.pared to clasp his hand. All four are sons of the King and Emperor George V; and neither storm nor snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these brothers from the swift completion...
...flies are. As for mosquitoes, they are one of the joy-killers in mountain climbing. They will be found right at the snow on the edge of the glaciers, LOTS OF 'EM. The farther east you go the worse they get The only places I ever found either absent is where it is fairly breezy or pretty confounded dry. As for rattlers, they're where you find 'em. But why worry ? It's a rare thing to hear of anyone getting bit and rarer still to hear of the victim dying. Autos are far more deadly...
...Rumanian political cycle starts when M. Jon Bratiano* becomes Premier, and is not full rounded until he has resigned and then resumed that office. Therefore, politically sneaking, it was "January" in Rumania last week, for M. Bratiano had just resumed the Premiership once more. He has been absent from office-not from power-for some 15 months. To sketch the events of those months is to trace the orbit, perhaps the horoscope, of Rumania...
...Answer calls made to a subscriber with a given message, such as that he is sick, busy, absent, but may be reached, later, at such-and-such an hour...