Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been secured to coach the December and April productions of the Club, for which there are available several experienced actors, including G. B. Bingham '28, who played the leading part in "Brown of Harvard" last spring. Mr. Massey is a former coach of Club productions but was absent last spring. He returns from New York, where he has recently staged John Dos Passos' play "The Moon is a Gong...
...first time, after 400 years, the Eternal Priest is absent from the house of God. Jesus Christ who day and night was to be found in each of our temples carrying on His mission as Saviour, and now with him the priest, has had to retire. Your minister has had to retire, the intermediary between heaven and earth, who teaches the doctrines of the Redeemer, who regenerated your children with the waters of baptism who pardoned your faults and healed your sorrows, who lifted heavenward the Body of Christ offered in the Sacrifice, who gave ( you the bread...
...have lived in a quiet way, in a Hall, by a forest, with her natural son, a few friends and a few gypsies for company. Some evenings she would draw close to her bedroom fire and reflect upon her unconventional estate, her mother love, the perfection of her absent lover, passing events in politics, art, literature, or upon life itself as she found it in her solitude. The texture of her mind was altogether extraordinary, far in advance of its time, indeed of this time too. Only a few pages are necessary to convince the reader that here...
...once "tin-panning" began. Crowds of strikers, their wives, children surrounded the houses of miners who had returned to work, kept up hour after hour a din upon tin pans, kettles, pails, until the family of the absent "scab" or "blackleg" promised to do their utmost to dissuade him from work. Once the worker returned home, usually besmeared with mud balls and rotten fruit, the tinpanners not only resumed their din but nailed down the windows and tied shut the doors of "blackleg houses...
...public office? All his life he had avoided it. Born in Cayuga County,* New York, in 1865, he earned his first dollar in a coal mine in Braidwood, 111. Miners probably decided that George Brennan would make a success of life when he lost a leg. A switchman was absent on a post-payday drunk. George, substituting, tried to uncouple two cars of a moving train. His foot became wedged in a frog and stayed there. He wears to this day a peg leg; loses 1 in. of his 5-ft.-6-in. stature. He then tried teaching school, found...