Word: absently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...touch of Teutonic humor is not absent. Referring to a Royal visit to the Armies, she says: "Madame de Chartres, Madame la Duchesse and the Princess de Conti have all three returned from the expedition pregnant, so the King cannot pretend that this journey was a fruitless...
Famed Elks absent: Nicholas Murray Butler, Alfred E. Smith, Royal S. Copeland, George Gordon Battle, John J. Pershing, John K. Tener...
When the Chamber had been aired and deliberations resumed, several Republican members were absent. The Lieutenant Governor ordered the High Sheriff to arrest them. He went and came back without them?producing a physician's certificate stating they were unable to attend...
...traditional design and symbolism but signifying little." There are interesting photographs of architectural projects as well as the architectural manifestations of the exposition itself. The art of the Theatre is more historical than contemporary in import, as Gordon Craig, Lovat Eraser and others of the modern theorists are absent. There are contemporary drawings of David Garrick, and stage designs by John Webb and Inigo Jones, 1650, a Shakespeare first folio, the program of an amateur performance of the Merry Wives in which Dickens and Cruikshank took part, and delightful models of the old theatres which help to swell the interest...
...large portfolio sauntered along the Tiber embankment. A closed car drove up, out jumped two men, the man was seized, thrust into the car, driven off at high speed, while the three men struggled inside. Some time later an agitated Signora noticed that her husband had been long absent. Alarm was raised; search parties organized; all to no purpose. Deputy Giacomo Matteotti, multimillionaire Socialist, husband of the distressed Signora, was missing. It was presumed that he was the man seized on the bank of the Tiber...