Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heightened by the work of Joseph Buloff, who alone of the cast seemed to get completely inside his assigned characterization. The sardonic comedy of Evelyn Varden, as mistress of the villa, helps, but Author Hecht failed to pencil in much of a part for Sylvia Sidney, six years absent from the Manhattan stage, with the result that the whole counterplot love story seems a device to accent the general indecisiveness of Hero Sterns...
...Perkins, who standing in the absent President Conant's place more than a year ago, advised an entering Freshman Class to do one thing and do it well, himself did many things...
From the menus of some railroad dining cars and many a restaurant, beef several months ago made a silent but definite exit. From the tables of the poor, pork ("the poor man's food") has likewise long been absent. Reason for both these facts is, as every housewife knows, the current high price of meat. Last week choice steers were selling for $19.50 a cwt. in Chicago, highest price in 18 years, and angry housewives had to pay 47½?; a Ib. for sirloin which they could buy two years ago for 36? and which cost...
...gold eagles, one facing east, the other north. Up the steps, between the eagles, into a lecture room of Harvard's Graduate School of Business Administration this week will march 300 or more industrialists. They will be going to take advice on their labor problems from an absent-minded professor who loses his overcoat regularly on the New Haven R. R. but who in 1933, three years before its arrival, forecast the coming...
After seven years of professorial and student grumbling, the university has removed the curbings at the ends of the walks within the yard and substituted gentle slopes, or ramps--no chance now for the absent-minded professor, walking blithely along with his head in the air, to trip and fall...