Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eugene Charlier of the "Folies" and Baron Cassini, a dashing financier "as well known on the Boulevard as on the Bourse." Since the actor is so good at impersonating the Baron in his act, he eventually comes around to impersonating the distinguished banker when that gentleman is unavoidably absent at a reception he was supposed to be giving various dignitaries of the French government...
...Absent from the banquet was Columbia's expert Scenarist Robert Riskin who also collaborated with Director Frank Capra on Lady for a Day, Broadway Bill and whose The Whole Town's Talking last week had its Manhattan première (see below). Now 40, Scenarist Riskin was brought up in Baltimore, attended Columbia University for two years. After 15 years as a cinema director, playwright, free-lance producer and scenarist, he struck his stride with Lady for a Day, has since become one of Hollywood's highest-paid writers.* He lives at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel, plays...
With a full turnout that filled the Briggs Cage, the baseball squad got under way yesterday with nearly every candidate ready to report for immediate duty. Only Dick Fletcher of the basketball team and Braman Gibbs, temporarily otherwise occupied, were absent from the roster...
...floor room of Adams squat C-section is annoyed by urchin--flung snowball; gentleman, entertaining woman, thinks valor the better part of discretion; gentleman, being sportsman, has double-barrelled shotgun; gentleman, being copiously refreshed with liquid refreshments, grabs gun and runs out into street; woman, being likewise, follows, coat absent and hair flying in the wind; gentleman, supported on the slippery ice by woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges too late; urchin runs like hell; gentleman, being gentleman...
...Prohibition has sat in Parliament. Last week Arch-Prohibitor Edwin Scrymgeour, who lost his seat in 1931, sat morosely in his Dundee home. Prohibition as a political cause was just about dead in the realm of His Majesty George V, a great whiskey connoisseur. With Bitter-Ender Scrymgeour absent in a huff, the British Prohibition Party had caucused in Dundee for the last time, dissolved...