Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this respect. Secretary Work's dinner was scheduled next. C. At the White House, the third state dinner of the season, for the Judiciary, passed off brightly. Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme Court twinkled and chuckled as guest of honor. Three of his Associate Justices were absent-the Hons. Brandeis, Holmes and McReynolds. C. Winding up an agreeable social week, the President addressed the business or- ganization of the government, headed by Gen. Herbert M. Lord, Director of the Budget, hinting sternly that his veto of the proposed tax cut as too large was no impossibility. C. From...
Water Pistols. If a girl refused to dance with a boy at a Rosewood High School of Rosewood, Minn., party, he promptly squirted her in the eye and dress with a water pistol. Twelve soaked girls went home from a recent party, caught cold, were absent from school for a week. Parents protested. Last week the Rosewood school officials announced that any person carrying water pistols or other squirting apparati would be ousted from the school...
...show space was already overcrowded. She was removed to the show rooms of her owner Gar Wood, famed racer and manufacturer. The Greenwich Folly of George H. Townsend, President of Boyce Motometer Co., winner last August of the Gold Cup, greatest of all motor boat speed prizes, was absent. But there were numerous speedy Chris-Craft, numerous Dodge Water Cars, sometimes raised to specially built speed efficiency and raced by the only notable woman marine speedster, Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell, daughter of Horace E. Dodge, famed maker of Dodge automobiles...
...there was a "moment" in the extravagantly long evening, it came when George R. Lunn, onetime Lieutenant Governor of New York, lifted his voice above a typewritten document which few but himself had read?a letter from "Al" Smith. Governor Smith was absent if for no better reason than that Mrs. Smith's appendix was just out, but his presence was announced by a demonstration brief and sincere. None interrupted with conventional shouts while Mr. Lunn read: " . . . The declaration of party principles might well be tentatively drafted at the earliest possible moment. . . . In the heat and rush of the Convention...
Baseball writers soon learned that Hornsby had been rude to President Charles A. Stoneham of the Giants. Acting manager of the nine last summer, Hornsby heckled Stoneham when famed Manager John J. McGraw was absent, ill. He suggested he did not like Stoneham; that he would not manage the team until Stoneham evaporated. This was unwise. Stoneham owned Hornsby...