Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Lawrence Conley will again take charge of the University boxing classes, from which he has been absent as a result of a burn that he recived while fighting a fire which threatened to destroy his home. During his absence Conley secured an assistant to conduct the classes...
With an operation scar healed, with his cheeks pink from the mountain air of Virginia Hot Springs, Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, last week called on Secretary of State Kellogg in Washington and said he would return to his post Jan. 14. He has been absent since June...
...Three hundred mayors representing cities from all parts of the United States attending First National Airports Conference called by Mayor William Hale Thompson extend congratulations on your achievement," said a telegram from Chicago to Mexico City, last week. Notably absent among these 300 mayors was John C. Lodge of Detroit whose election a Detroiter ascribes partially to the fact that Mr. Lodge is granduncle to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. One good reason why Mr. Lodge did not attend the mayoral gathering at Chicago was that, elected mayor of Detroit only last month, he has not yet been inaugurated. Mayor-elect...
...Brooklyn, a Mrs. Bertha Turner, janitress, was walking upstairs followed by her police dog, Vol. Before reaching the top floor, Mrs. Bertha Turner turned into a room; her absent-minded Vol, his eyes upon his paws, failed to notice this and continued walking upstairs until he came out upon the roof. Soon he heard his name being called by the voice of Mrs. Bertha Turner. Excited, he twice whirled about on the roof top; she was not in sight. Suddenly he realized that the voice came from below; with a wild and silly hop he jumped over the edge...
Crunch-crunch went pretzels in the mouth of J. Lewis Coath, president of the Chicago Board of Education. Mr. Coath was presiding over another session of School Superintendent McAndrew's "trial" for insubordination (TIME, Sept. 12, et seq.). Although Superintendent McAndrew was absent from the hearing, 17 Chicago school teachers, principals and district superintendents, were present to call him a "Simon Legree . . . a faker . . . a cruel task master," because he had obliged them to exact perfect answers from their pupils before permitting the pupils to continue to subsequent lessons...