Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Personal satire is almost absent, though there is a terse and unkind quatrain about Ernest Hemingway, which is at the same time a parody of Longfellow's "Psalm of Life." Nor has Cummings forgotten his nursery rhymes...
...servant class" bred up to niceties of the household and restaurant as in England, and the notion of it is altogether discordant with any liberal traditions that we are fortunate enough to have. The suggestion that more attention be paid to the small amenities, noticed only when absent, draws no lines or social distinction, as it applies in nearly as great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit...
Internal Myxedema. Among the common signs of a thyroid gland functioning under par are: cold, dry, rough and puffy skin; coarse, dry hair which falls out; apathetic emotions; sluggish mind. But those external signs of myxedema (atrophy of the thyroid) may be absent and internal disorders take their place. That possible inversion of symptoms is so little known that Dr. Hans Lisser of San Francisco made a stir by showing that a person's lazy insides may be prodded by thyroid treatment. Dr. Lisser's most remarkable patient suffered from ascites (abdominal dropsy); flaccid heart, intestines and bladder...
...Confirmed the appointment of Marriner Stoddard Eccles of Utah to be governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Purposely absent when the Banking & Currency Committee took its final vote was Governor Eccles' warm foe. Carter Glass of Virginia, who mortally hates the Eccles plan for tightening Government control of the Federal Reserve System...
...Geneva last week a thick-spectacled Turk, near-sighted Foreign Minister Dr. Tewfik Rushdi, presided over the Council of the League of Nations. Absent but up for scrutiny was Germany...