Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Steel Preferred. The presence of Ben Turpin as a bartender would make this film for some people. But Mr. Turpin is one of the few actors who are incomprehensibly absent from the screen much of the time. The play is not, however, a cross-eyed comedy. It is a love story with a steel-mill background and fair enough...
...Council's Decision. Before Signer Scialoja handed down the Council's ruling, he went through the form of asking the ostentatiously absent Turkish representative to appear and be seated. After a pause of 15 minutes, the Turks sent in a message that it was impossible for them to attend the meeting. The Council then ruled as follows...
...House of the Irish Free State Parliament. The hours fled breathlessly because a certain bland clause in the Free State Constitution provides that every Irish M. P. must take an oath of allegiance to King George-which has caused Eamonn de Valera and 38 other elected Republican deputies to absent themselves from the Dáil in protest. Last week they were expected to appear at any moment. Rumor had it that they would force their way into the Dáil without taking the oath. News-mongers chuckled at the thought of filing lurid three-column despatches...
...professional teams and were stars on their college elevens have stated that they now play the game with a different spirit. The "society" feature which leads people who never sat in a college classroom to pay heavily for seats at the fashionable games would necessarily be absent from professional contests. But perhaps a different class might be attracted in equal numbers...
Several experienced players will be absent from the squad when the latter has its first real workout under Coach E. L. Bigelow '21, on Monday. C. D. Coady '27, who was a star defense man as a schoolboy and captain of his Freshman team, is elegible this season, but is not expected to report for some time. His availability makes up in some measure for the loss of P. W. Chase '25, W. B. Ellison '27, and William Howard '27, defence men last season...