Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like many orators before him, Mr. Lewis did not achieve by speech his apparent object. He did not convince the absent operators...
...Sutton Bundy came to be absent from among those eight was, reporters thought, a "heart-story." It was 20 years ago, when she was 19, that May Sutton, a California girl who did not permit her gentility to interfere with her agility, or her garments with her respiration, came out of the West to win the Tennis Championships of the U. S. and England. Twice she held the singles championship of the world, three times the U. S. title, married Thomas Bundy, (Bundy held, at the time, the national doubles title with Maurice McLaughlin, "The California Comet," the most spectacular...
...decided to live with him no longer, had herself sought the divorce. Official statements discreetly said nothing. All that was definitely known was that about three weeks ago Mme. Kemal left Angora precipitately. Ministers of the Government were present to bid her farewell, but the President was conspicuously absent. Latife Hanoum, 21, pretty, plump, short, graceful and possessed of "large, .luminous and altogether entrancing black eyes," is the daughter of Mouamerou-Chaki Bey, rich merchant of Smyrna, who once had connections with the New York Stock Exchange...
Part of last week's jockeying was in a matter of the personnel of the negotiators. The operators appointed a conference committee this year that is almost entirely new-the former "big guns" being absent. The miners saw or professed to see in this an intention by the operators to hold their "big guns" back for a final assault. As a result, John L. Lewis, President of the Union Mine Workers, left the conference after the opening session, "called away on business," and did not return. Each side accused the other of insincerity in sending "underlings" as negotiators. Each...
...turning into a saloon far down the alley, hands crossed behind back; and had he but shut the outer hand opportunely, he would have found himself in unexpected possession of a perfectly good tuber. It is needless to observe that, during the rest of my boyhood, I had register absent whenever that surprised worthy appeared in the offing. O. D. BRANDENBURG...