Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Howard Thurston, even though absent, was chosen as one of the vice presidents...
...sturdy fellow. Nor has he changed, in weeks. So before you could say your prayers or take a final or even find a pretty debutante, there we were at the circus with peanuts crowding their impulsive way down the leathery necks of mauve pachyderms, horses, horses, and my rooommate absent mindedly dangling a red balloon over his right tonsil...
...Notably absent from play were Miss Joyce Wethered, champion 1922, 1924, 1925, and Miss Cecil Leitch, champion 1914, 1920, 1921, 1926. Miss Leitch, however, marched with the "brolly" brigade, carrying her shelter in her left hand. Down from the Irish skies shot a bolt of Irish lightning, ran down the spines of Miss Leitch's umbrella, knocked her flat on the grass, put her arm out of golfing commission for a fortnight...
...thirds of the Advisors were present at the meeting. Eighteen men were absent because they were at Philadelphia with the track team, the 150-pound crew, and the-third University crew, or at Ithaca with the first two University crews. There were seven other absentees...
...people witnessed the Derby ? 75,000 to be approximate. Among them were Senator Charles Curtis of Kansas, who used to be a jockey; Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago, who presented Mr. Whitney with a golden cup; Mayor James J. Walker of New York, who is sel dom absent from any spectacle; Thomas D. Taggart, potent Indiana Democrat; Herbert Bayard Swope, who edits the New York World; Joseph Pulitzer, who bears a famed name and owns part of the World; Admiral Gary T. Grayson; and W. O. Mays, who as Federal Prohibition Administrator for Kentucky, said: "Hipflask violators will...