Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newark. The Federal Trade Commission two months ago listed Chairman Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel as the highest-paid executive in the U. S. in 1932, bonuses excluded. He received $150,000 in 1929, $250,000 in 1932. Traveling in Europe for his health, Chairman Schwab was absent from the annual Bethlehem meeting for the first time in the memory of the oldest present. A stockholder declared there was "no excuse" for Mr. Schwab's high salary. President Eugene Gifford Grace, whose bonuses had twice topped $1,000,000, shushed him by replying that the company could never...
...open letter to the New York State Chamber of Commerce in which he said: "I am for gold dollars as against baloney dollars." When the letter appeared in the New Outlook for December, it was accompanied by an editorial in which Editor Smith compared the Administration to an absent-minded professor playing "anagrams with alphabet soup.'' Such advertising, however, helped to run the New Outlook's circulation up from 85,000 to 200,000. Last week, for the first time since he joined the New Outlook, Al Smith made news of another sort. Gist of the news...
After this tirade directed at the absent Hurley. Wilkins drops for a moment into a pitying attitude. Not a feeling of futility, for the confidence of the rest of the letter shows the supreme faith in Gill's show. The pity is, however, that this "crude, undigested, and immature assortment of rambling remarks" is bent on the destruction of the "character and brilliant accomplishments of a public official who for more than six years has struggled to give the Commonwealth honest and capable service...
...including the men of her own family, fell in love with her, Anitra did not return the emotion until young Pianist Strakosh burst on her view. But alas, the new fashion of "unhappy endings"' dictated that Anitra should be carried off by a sudden hemorrhage, with Strakosh absent on a triumphant concert tour, and just at the moment when Papa Bruno at last conquered the impasse of his unfinished theme. Physical to a pungent degree, Author Hurst handles her characters with caressing fingers that are impatient of clothes, is sometimes betrayed into descriptions so accurate that they seem hermaphroditic...
...stopped tipping when her money ran low," was deserted in the throes of a fit. The story runs on in this manner to tell of sick being left to die, of aged beaten into submission, of inedible food, of medication by inexperienced and brutal attendants; no horror is absent, and the fact that it is told by the attendants themselves is eloquent proof of its veracity. Tam-many's record is long, but on no page is written more blood and suffering...