Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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So?said to be for the first time? were eight of the grandchildren of the late President by his second marriage brought together. (His granddaughter, by his first marriage, Paulina Longworth, two weeks old, was perforce absent. So was Dirck*, two months old son of Kermit.) The chaperons of the party included the President's widow and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt. The entertainer was Houdini, the great ectoclast...
...Alumni near Philadelphia have been recently favored with a series of dinner notices, illustrated with cartoons of very jolly youths in various attitudes, the text suggesting that liquor will not be notably absent from the dinner...
...committee of the whole, considering the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, the Democrats caught the Republicans napping, (with a majority absent) and eliminated the clause appropriating funds for the maintenance of the Tariff Commission...
...European universities the stress of extra-curriculum activities is absent. There students have time to eat, to talk, to think. They have leisure enough to travel a bit and to read a little in fields quite outside their own particular course of study. Harvard was like that once. Emerson did little reading for his classes, but much for himself; and Roosevelt, too, found time to reflect and write. The Harvard College of today is far different. Men no longer have time to linger over meals, to exchange ideas, and so to broaden their intellectual horizons. The passing of Memorial Hall...
...while the Democrats laid down a 'barrage of sarcasm. The vote was 42 for rejection and 28 for acceptance. The Democrats without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...