Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first act is disappointing, largely because everyone except Mr. Gordon, who never fails to give just the right touch, insists upon speaking in unconvincingly melodramatic tones upon undeniably commonplace subjects. Thereafter the action becomes more brisk, and the melodramatic blah-blah, if not absent, is at least inconspicuous. The appearance of Miss Annette Margules as Tondeleyo, the white man's alternative, revives the waning interest of the audience no less than it does the lonely Englishmen. She shares with Mr. Gordon the acting honors of the evening...
Panic. "I well remember, after the panic of 1907, when my father was telling me the story of those anxious and agitated days, during which I had been absent, that he said, by way of summing up what he had been telling...
Lindley Will Be Absent From Line...
...condition in Widener, however, is almost ideal in comparison to that of the overcrowded lecture rooms in Harvard and Sever. These halls were not built originally for the multitudes that now pack into them every hour. As winter comes and doors and windows are never absent mindedly left open, the change is entirely for the worse. Before vast sums are spent for new buildings, a little might very well be expended to remedy the defects of the old. New chairs and new desks are needed; above all new ventilating apparatus...
...circumstances are favorable to a once-for-all decision. It is a time of peace when wartime passions are absent. It is a time of comparative prosperity when the economic and political structure seems most solid. But the same conservative spirit which actuated the imprisonment of socialists during the war is at work, and the case will test the court's ability to withstand the pervasive dangers of class spirit and to formulate a conception of the freedom of speech under which the courts can protect the rights of minority opinion...