Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other member of the Eliot team, since Finley took the place of the absent third, was Archibald B. Roosevelt, Jr. '40. The Dudley trio was headed by Reginald B. Phelps '30, Dean of Records, associate of Dudley Ball, and was composed of Lloyd G. Butterfield '40 and Morris Yarosh...
...Castings: William Powell, absent from the screen for almost a year; in Return of the Thin Man, his first job under a new seven-year contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
This super jam-session was designed not primarily for its small U. S. audience but for English swing fans who heard it over an exclusive BBC broadcast. King of Swing Benny Goodman was conspicuously absent. He was at Manhattan's Town Hall playing with the sedate Budapest String Quartet in an unswung version of Mozart's Clarinet Quintet in A Major. Chamber-music alligators found Goodman's classical tooting almost in the groove...
Exactly 40 minutes after the fire started Les Nouvelles Galeries collapsed, its walls bursting outward and setting fire to the Hotel de Noailles across the street. Into the hotel rooms of the absent Premier and Foreign Minister rushed firemen who had just time to gather up their papers, later taken to a police station for safe keeping...
Said Fellow Conductor Sir Hamilton Harty: "He is understood to be very absent-minded." Said Fellow Conductor Sir Adrian Boult: "We musicians are all a bit absent-minded." Said BBC Television Orchestra Player Cyril Clark: "... A very absent-minded and dreamy individual." Said his wife, Sidonie Goossens, sister of Cincinnati Conductor Eugene Goossens: "He is absent-minded." Impressed by the weight of evidence, Defendant Greenbaum added his own tuppennyworth: "My friends tell me I am very absent-minded...