Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sped out of Washington and across the green acres of Maryland striped with the long shadows of a late afternoon sun. Franklin D. Roosevelt was going down to the sea. Going down with him were his wife, his four sons, newshawks, secret service men, many an official friend. Notably absent was his gruff, wrinkle-faced little No. 1 secretary, friend and jealous counselor, Louis McHenry Howe, who lay doubled up with a chronic stomach ailment on his White House bed. Goodbys were said on the dock of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. Then the President & party stalked up the gangplank...
...Ellen Tuck French, 18, daughter of Boston Insurance Agent Francis Ormond French and Mrs. Livingston French of Manhattan: in Newport, R. I. Notably present were Mrs. Fiermonte, Mr. William K. Dick, her second husband. Nazi Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengl. Clara Smith, Negro matron of the Newport Casino. Notably absent were Mr. Astor's halfbrother. Vincent Astor; his onetime Fiancee Eileen Gillespie; his stepfather. Prizefighter Fiermonte...
...Leader Donovan demanded and got an immediate hearing. Result: Mrs. Luke was reinstated. Then the General's pent-up feelings overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave." Said the NRA union: "In order to build a case, Donovan's immediate superior, Gustav Peck, was called in to allege in efficiency. Peck said Donovan was A. W. O. L. two days-last October! . . . His 'insubordination' was refusal to remove his delegation...
...which he, a life-long champion of free trade, faced when his National Government decided to gird up the Empire's loins with a high tariff (TIME, May 2, 1932 et ante). That crisis was got over by a spell of "eye strain" which enabled Ramsay MacDonald to absent himself from London during most of the time that free trade was being butchered. Last week, on the day after he broke Britain's big navy news, the Prime Minister's eyes began to weaken. His fashionable Physician Thomas Jeeves Horder, Baron Horder of Ashford. first attended...
...bought 18 observation-car tickets for himself and guests, smiled when the conductor counted them twice. Scattered along the course were most of the boats that started two days later for the race to Bermuda. Governor Cross of Connecticut was on a Navy cutter anchored near the finish. Notably absent was Vincent Astor's Nourmahal...