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Word: absently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five "blokes" whom Perry complimented anonymously last week, two will be absent from Forest Hills?Australia's Jack Crawford, who was too weary to play any more after the Davis Cup interzone final, and Great Britain's "Bunny" Austin who dislikes the strain of a long tournament. With these exceptions the names on the West Side Club scoreboards include nearly all the best players in the world. Topping the list are the members of the U. S. Davis Cup team, Sidney Wood, Frank Shields, George Lott and Lester Stoefen. Experts wondered how o rate the chances of Berkeley Bell, once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tennists to Forest Hills | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...back from Europe, wearing button-shoes); Samuel D. Riddle (who gives a party every time a descendant of his famed Man o' War wins a race); old John Sanford (whose son "Laddie" was playing polo on Long Island in the test games for the East-West matches). Notably absent was Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, who was recuperating from pneumonia on Long Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaw at Saratoga | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...also exotic, feature the stovepipe which sits high on the head, the Francois Villon, and the tiny velvet head turban with three and only three feathers. Skirts are split, but not notably longer than last year, varying from floor length to 15 in. above the floor. Trains are conspicuously absent. Predominant dress colors are black, "poison" green, purple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Haute Couture | 8/13/1934 | See Source »

...73rd House of Representatives nine good Democrats regularly cast Oklahoma's nine votes in support of the New Deal. When the 74th Congress meets in January at least five of those nine Democratic Representatives will be conspicuously absent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Oklahoma Outs | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

Next day the Langer partisans in the Senate, trying desperately to muster a quorum, sent out two husky sergeants at arms to muster absent members. They found Senator C. W. Fine, a weather beaten little farmer, in the Governor's council chamber, forcibly dragged him to the Senate floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: North Dakota Fun | 7/30/1934 | See Source »

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