Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Conspicuously absent from the list of college stars from which Coach Bierman's team was drafted last week was one Chief William Loane West, half-breed Indian from Anniston, Ala., who last fortnight got into the news by registering at the University of California, admitting that he was 46 years old and stating that he would try to make the Varsity football team. True to his boast. Chief West last week trotted out for conditioning practice. He got a mild "Charley horse" when another squad member, carrying the Chief's 216 Ib. hulk down the field...
Both tragic and ludicrous were the cases outlined by the survey: Case 49,021: An investigator called on a woman in Henry Street, wanted to find out why her husband had been absent from his job for three days. "Absent-absent-these last three clays?" stammered the woman. "But-but-my husband died last year." Case 33: The worker was convicted of robbery last year, sentenced to from two to ten years in the Connecticut State Prison. Concluded the interviewer: "In-asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll...
Seattle's oldest paper was silent for the first time in its 71 years.* Nevertheless, William Randolph Hearst was not without a voice in Washington's largest city. Open to his almost daily diatribes against his absent employes were the columns of the leading afternoon paper, which had fought him tooth & nail since he invaded Seattle in 1921. Clarance Brettun Blethen's Times not only printed Mr. Hearst's pronouncements, but independently condemned the strikers and their tactics. These, it seemed to rich, reactionary Mr. Blethen, were outrageously irregular. The Hearst pressmen were remaining away from...
...refused to put up any formal defense, on the ground that the whole proceeding was illegal. Nevertheless, on the third morning the A. F. of L.'s absent twelfth vice president, David Dubinsky, head of International Ladies' Garment Workers, which belongs to the C. I. O., dramatically returned from Europe, made his appearance at the council table. Promptly Fourth Vice President John Coefield of the plumbers' and steamfitters' union challenged his right to be present because his union was on trial. Astutely Mr. Dubinsky reminded Mr. Coefield that, if that rule were followed, President Green...
Kindly President Miklas fared even worse, had to stand for a whole hour in which nothing could be heard but the frantic cheers of Austrians for the ruler of Germany. Vienna police, either anxious for their own skins or under secret orders from absent Chancellor Schuschnigg, not only permitted Nazis to roar their forbidden Horst Wessel song but let them slug and beat up Socialists, Communists and Jews. Four plug-uglies wearing Nazi white socks dumped a blood-bespattered youth in front of some policemen, mockingly declared : "Here's a Red for you who's been shouting against...