Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...activities as serving on Illinois library, prison and school boards. Last year 10,000 Chicagoans signed a petition requesting him to seek the Republican mayoralty nomination to run against Mayor Kelly. Dr. Bradley said he preferred to round out 25 years with Peoples Church, from which he has been absent (because of illness) only five Sundays...
Voting with only one member, Thomas H. Bilodeau '37, absent, the Council approved the findings of several of its members who, under the leadership of John B. Bowditch '37, president, had consulted with all those directly concerned in the case. The conclusion was reached that, on political grounds, the uproar was unjustified...
...fiction the elegiac note is absent, but the same restrained exoticism still appears. Each of the stories is good, but the only one which seems to emerge from the level of distinguished composition-class work is "Another Country" by John M. Cunningham. Setting the Sciltan Mafia on an American water-front, it builds with almost unfailing crescendo, a sequence of extortion, intimidation and violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item...
Oddly enough this cinematic newspaper, the Globe retains a slight air of dignity absent from its recent predecessors. Even the somewhat hardened sports writers fail to strip to their undershirts and toss off innumerable hookers of whiskey as the pressure of the deadline approaches. Perhaps that is because Miss Hudson is present...
...which books reported lost turn up is from the bequests of late professors in the University who have absent-mindedly removed books and forgotten to return them, but pay their debt by leaving them as a gift to the library...