Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America last week repaired to celebrate the Readers' 100th anniversary. There McGuffeyites settled down to enjoy a pageant, a square dance, a barbecue, speeches. Said Ohio's onetime (1929-31) Governor Myers Cooper: "McGuffey, if living today, would be a conservative!" Said Fred L. Black, speechmaker for absent Henry Ford who collects rare Readers, restored the crumbling log-cabin McGuffey birthplace near Claysville, Pa.: "Abraham Lincoln, William Holmes McGuffey and Thomas Edison are the three Americans Henry Ford reveres most." Said Lieutenant Governor Harold G. Mosier: "Ohio's most useful citizen...
...people around him. In his subsequent satire on scientific progress, Brave New World, Author Huxley buttressed his argument without deepening it when he painted a picture of a world in which man's conquest of nature was complete, in which the evils of contemporary society were absent but with them all poetry, all drama, all joy in life...
...mansion, following an organ grinder to his basement flat, making friends with the vaudeville actors who live upstairs, joining their act which turns out to be a smash hit on the radio hour of the crotchety soap manufacturer who is her father's business rival. Shirley is absent from the screen in only six sequences, foots neatly through three dance numbers, sings You've Gotta Eat Your Spinach, Baby and But Definitely, which she pronounces incorrectly. Best shot: the Temple sneeze...
...nevertheless managed to keep a dramatic hand in "national and international relationships." In the past three years he has circled the globe twice. The last junket, from which he returned last April, kept him away from home eight months. That he was earning his salary every minute he was absent, no one can deny. As he stepped on the boat at San Francisco last September a neatly planned interchange of letters with the White House evoked from Frank-lin Roosevelt the political catch-phrase of the season: The promise to U. S. business of a "breathing spell." In December, after...
After another prayer Michigan's Representative Louis C. Rabaut, to whose small, sweet tenor voice Joe Byrns had liked to listen, sang Absent and Thy Will Be Done. Leaning heavily on the rostrum, Speaker Bankhead declared in his soft Alabama drawl: "There were so tempered in the heart and soul of Joe Byrns elements of tolerance, patience and sympathy that he had drawn to him the ungrudging regard and affection of all men who came within the radius of his genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than...