Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Civil War brought more hard times for Marx and Engels. Fired from the Tribune, Marx tried to get a job on a railroad. His daughter secretly attempted to go on the stage to help her parents. Increasingly absent-minded about money, Marx once signed a note, forgot all about it until it came due. While writing Capital and A Critique of Political Economy he fought savage battles with the Russian Anarchist Bakunin and the German Socialist Lassalles over questions of theory, is accused by his biographer of having been unjust to both men. Outliving his wife...
...Sophomores who have been out this fall, only four remain: Cutter, Mechem, Moore and Carstein. Notable among the second year men absent because of fall sports is Captain Russ Allen of last year's crack Freshman outfit...
Married. Abdul Aziz Ibn Abdulrahman Ibn Faisal Ibn Saud, King of Saudi Arabia; and the daughter of Sheik Nawal el-Shaalan of Damascus; by proxy, in Damascus, where 40 sheiks represented the absent bridegroom. Conqueror of Yahya the Imam of Yemen last year (TIME, May 14, 1934), creator and builder of modern Arabia, towering, bespectacled Ibn Saud has married and divorced more than 100 times, has never exceeded the limit of four wives at one time allowed him by sacred custom...
...Absent Transvestite. In the Federal district court at Louisville a kidnapping trial began without the actual snatcher. To tne witness stand went rich young Alice Speed Stoll, daughter-in-law of a Louisville oilman, to tell how Thomas H. Robinson Jr. had abducted her from her suburban home in October 1934, held her captive in an Indianapolis apartment for the next six days while dickering for $50,000 ransom (TIME, Oct. 20, 1934). 'Napper Robinson's eccentricity is transvestitism. Since he habitually wears women's clothes, Government agents have not yet been able to pick...
...casual judgment this year's model should be the best of the lot. The 1934 Crusaders had one or two notable weaknesses that cropped up at the most important times, but most of those troubles seem to be absent this year. For instance thanks in part to Adam Walsh's knowledge of the Notre Dame type of play, Harvard was able to do an unexpectedly good job of stopping the Purple's ground attack a year ago. Then, of course, a certain Jim Hobin started passing...