Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was an atmosphere of eager anticipation on the Varsity practice field yesterday afternoon, an attitude that has been conspicuously absent in all previous Thursday workouts...
...opportunity is up to them and their prospective hosts. The cuisine of Adams House may be a welcome weekly relief to the roast beef au joos of the Union, and the Winthrop House waitresses may lend a zest to the Freshman's appetite that has been desperately absent since he came under the wings of Mother Murray and her Brood...
...short, the Conference atmosphere last week was not 1936, but at least as far back as 1836. This fact made headlines because there was no "human interest" news about what the Prime Minister had had to say at Margate or about his pipe or his pigs. Stanley Baldwin was absent and absent too was the amiable humbug with which he has led Great Britain for so long, meandering down the winding path of least resistance in both home and foreign affairs. A reborn fighting Conservative spirit was stirring at Margate last week and the Party was veering toward new leaders...
...Director Arzner whispers as if afraid of disturbing some invisible superior. Catching the habit from her actors, electricians, camera crew tiptoe, whisper. Absent are the jovial capers, bawdy stories, practical jokes traditional on male-directed sets. Away from the camera Miss Arzner works in an elaborate office built for her at Columbia, goes home to a hillside where she sleeps beside a window so that the sunrise will wake her. Although her father ran a restaurant, she shows small interest in food, takes rough age for lunch. She has never married, goes out little, is now making Mother Carey...
...instance, it was a disorganized looking outfit that milled around newcomer Harlow at the first work-out of the 1935 campaign, a vastly different spectacle from that enacted on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. Name tapes that were used for identification of the players last year were conspicuously absent, as the coaches know the names of almost every candidate, and could even quote the exact weights of many...