Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...except to entertain. The play opens in the middle of nowhere and rambles through three quite amusing acts, ending in the air. Philip Tonge, taking the part of the husband whose imaginative wife becomes interested in another man, is well qualified for the part, and his portrayal of an absent minded professor was received with much enthusiasm. A long third act is made possible by brilliant dialogue and a comical drunken scene. At the end, the caste of five receives much applause from a well satisfied audience. The problem we expect to be worked out for us is left unsolved...
...supported by a greatly changed line-up for Team A. Captain Hammond was absent from his post at second and several of the Team A fielders were out for the afternoon. Except for the pitchers' duel the game was not particularly fast and was marred by several errors. The only score came in the fifth inning when Zarakov, who had worked to third by Slayton's error and hits by Howard and Hoffman took home on a passed ball...
...sincere. The story itself, slightly artificial but cleverly told, is a product of older Harvard : Elam Dunster, great-great-grandsired by a Harvard president returns to his professor-father from a sophisticated childhood in Europe with his runaway mother and her lover. He discovers a quixotic passion for an absent professor's young wife. No Brahmin ban, but his mother's wisdom, restrains him from "rescuing" the girl, eloping with her, in the name of Individualism. The mother points out that such revolts, to be satisfactory, must be purely selfish...
This state of affairs went on until May 29, when, after being absent from the first part of Prayers, the Sophomores trooped in as a body and acted in such a disorderly manner that the service had to be suspended. That same day the whole class, with the exception of three members who were away, was summarily dismissed from the College. Subsequently, it partially recouped its membership, and graduated with 39 members...
Giovanni Martinelli, famed tenor, last week returned to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after having been absent, ill with typhoid, for almost three months. When he, as Canio in Pagliacci, drove on the stage in the prescribed donkey-cart, standees, gallery-devils, box-holders interrupted the orchestra to applaud; in a convenient pause, the musicians themselves laid down their flutes, their fiddles, applauded with the audience; when he finished singing the famed aria Vesti la giubba the ovation was taken up again, lasted for five minutes. Martinelli, bowing and bowing, shed tears of gratitude...