Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famed German superincendiary thermite bombs on its roof last week, but after sizzling according to specifications "with a heat greater than that of molten iron," they finally sizzled out without setting fire. Downstairs the tall, sleek president of I. T. & T., Lieut.-Colonel Sosthenes Behn, an acquaintance of absent Alfonso XIII, remained very much present in Madrid, where he has chosen to stay during the whole of Spain's present civil war. Scores of panic-stricken Madrid mothers decided that, even though Colonel Behn's building seemed to be a target for White bombs, it also seemed able...
...vote on the merger was called for, ballots issued and collected, proxies tabulated. Result: for, 5,318,107 shares; against, 50; not voting, 782,328 (Getty interests); absent...
...trailer camps. Hildred Gumarsol, who at first talked of going to the State Supreme Court if necessary, became so pessimistic that he packed up his trailer, left town, first martyr of the brave new trailer world. Last week his pessimism was justified. Justice Green held trial with Gumarsol absent. His decision: that Gumarsol had violated the law and that "trailer shantytowns" would no longer be allowed in Orchard Lake. Fining Defendant Gumarsol only $1 plus $3.10 costs, Justice Green declared: "We gave him a break because we knew this was an important test case...
...Absent since Oct. 13 from Supreme Court deliberations, Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone was reported by his wife "greatly improved" from an "attack of bacillary dysentery of the Flexner type...
...leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley, who got so excited in a controversy over Tolstoy and Ibsen that he hit a brother-critic with his crutch. Corpulent, good-natured Chesterton was too absent-minded to be a good battler. On one of his lecture tours he sent his wife a telegram: "Am in Market Harborough. Where ought I to be?" Another time Shaw persuaded him to take part in a cinema, saying it was being produced by Barrie. Chesterton let himself be dressed...