Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Listing the occasions on which Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy has been absent from the State, Lieut. Governor Leo J. Nowicki invoked an 1840 statute, asked the State auditor to pay him the Governor's salary for the days in question. Figuring that he had been away 32 days at $13.88 a day,* nettled Governor Murphy sent the auditor his check for $444.42. Lieut. Governor Nowicki (who has been earning $200 a week since July as a bankruptcy trustee) thereupon claimed the Governor's salary not for 32 days but for 70, returned his own check...
...injured by a batted ball during spring training in Mexico last year. During the last six weeks of the season, when he was afflicted with an old gall bladder ailment, his familiar figure, dressed in street clothes, wearing a pre-War high hard collar, brandishing a score card, was absent from the Athletics' dugout. Last week Connie Mack did not eat or drink at his birthday party. He is on a diet of custards, milk and pudding...
...Metropolitan Opera's current season Der Rosenkavalier and Roméo et Juliette have been billed as "revivals."' Yet neither had been absent more than three years from the repertory; Rosenkavalier had not even been newly staged. Last week a genuine revival finally did appear. Verdi's Otello, one of his last and greatest works, had not been seen & heard at the Opera House since the days when Toscanini conducted and principal roles were taken by dashing Leo Slezak, gossipy Frances Alda and drama-wise Antonio Scotti...
...second night, with Society's annual mass raid over for the year, Richard Strauss' Rosenkavalier, first of the forthcoming three-opera "Strauss cycle," provided Soprano Lotte Lehmann with one of her most famous and mellowest roles, that of the absent Field Marshal's wife. On the third night debuts began...
Jack Buchanan breezes through the role of the doubly devoted husband. He sings his songs without raising his voice; he scarcely gets up to do his dances. His insouciance and absent-mindedness seem very real, and make of him a most likeable comic hero. Evelyn Laye, his English wife, retains her dignity and quiet charm even through the clowning required of her, and does some expert singing to boot. Adele Dixon, conspicious for the daring of her gowns, manages to capture a respectable French accent, French raciness, and French contempt for British beefsteak...