Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buys Bethlehem Steel stock and some rolling mills. In the last chapters, Paula is employing their millions to make their daughter's Semitic strain fashionable enough for the Junior League. To Sam, profits are unprofitable. Even the recurrent ghost of Evelyn has become meaningless. He endows universities with an absent gesture; lets his secretaries invent his excuses; fiddles with his radio. One program is interrupted by a ship's call, in which his daughter recognizes his initials?S.O.S...
...would supervise the approaching Olympic tryouts, Paddock apologized and was reinstated a significant commentary on the sincerity of the "Professional" charge. Since then warfare has been less open, but periodic suspensions for offences ordinarily connived at, have indicated that politics, it quiescent, is not altogether absent...
Samuel Matthews Vauclain, 69-year-old President of Baldwin Locomotive Works, is hale. He may be seen at his Broad Street offices in Philadelphia any day he is not absent answering the questions of investigation committees or attending sessions of one of his many scientific societies...
...noteworthy that with the exception of Mr. Robinson the committeemen are all young men or new Senators. The famed Democratic fighting investigators, Walsh and Wheeler, and others such as Reed of Missouri are absent. The most radical of the group is young LaFollette, but he is young and inexperienced in such investigations. On the whole it does not seem to be a committee of great talkers, sensational debaters or bitter prosecutors...
...sybyl was a seeress of no mean ability. Somewhat absent minded and a trifle vaporish, she nevertheless, had legions at her call--and enjoyed greater power than any modern mystic has dared profess. And now that her records are to be made public--now that the famous leaves are to be gathered by the grammarians and what note of Italy, one wonders how well this early priestess of the occult did her duty by her trade...