Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read it. While Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and other prominent Nazi disciplinarians boiled with rage, Composer Strauss went quietly on with his work. But when Die Schweigsame Frau was finally performed in Dresden, Librettist Zweig's name was absent from the programs, and Nazi critics were hostile. It was immediately dropped from the repertory. Months later, Strauss resigned as head of the Musikkammer...
...leadership; attracts few men to meetings; keeps no complete membership lists. It claims-although it negates many Christian teachings-that it works in the framework of the churches. It has also the framework of a publishing business-seven Unity magazines* have 2,000,000 paying subscribers. The department of absent treatment, called Society of Silent Unity, has a staff of over 60 constantly praying people, to whom believers may write, wire or telephone at any time and have prayers said in their behalf. A love offering is expected from those who benefit...
...President announced the personnel of his commission to study labor laws and conditions in Britain-and Sweden-this summer. Conspicuously absent was a representative of C.I.O., but John L. Lewis would have no part in any study that might lead to altering the Wagner Labor Act. Mostly of good calibre, the Commission was notably mixed, including the president of General Electric Co. and the principal of Mrs. Roosevelt's Todhunter School for Girls...
When the two-day totals were tallied, the University of Southern California, absent from I.C. 4-A meets since 1935, had spreadeagled the field, won the team championship for the eighth time since it first competed 14 years ago. Although its 17-man team won only two events and tied for a third, it placed in the ten events in which it was entered, amassed a total of 4?i points, almost twice as many as the runner-up, Michigan State...
...trucked in the aisles, clambered out of the grandstand, shagged across the cinder track, yelled "Floy Floy!" "Jive it, cats!" "Get in the groove!" The five-hour-45-minute concert was played by 25 bands, among whose leaders were: Rudy Vallee, Duke Ellington, Hal Kemp, Gene Krupa, Vincent Lopez. Absent was Killer Diller Benny Goodman (see p. 22), who will hold his own swing fiesta in Madison Square Garden, June...