Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...publication, should extend its congratulations to the visitors of the Model League for holding a model dance which the various Houses could well accept as a standard. The deplorable characteristics of Harvard dances, with their excessive stag lines, unbecoming quantity of intoxicated persons, and over-officious ushers, were decidedly absent in the dance held by the Model League of Nations...
...moral laxity" of recent years. In the evening the President and Mrs. Roosevelt attended a dinner at the Mayflower Hotel given jointly by all members of the Cabinet, in lieu of ten separate dinners held in other years. All ten members of the Cabinet, nine of their spouses (only absent spouse: Paul Wilson, husband of Madam Secretary Perkins), the Vice President, the Speaker, the Budget Director, Mrs. Curtis Dall, Gracie Hall Roosevelt (brother of Mrs. Roosevelt), Frederic A. Delano (uncle of the President) and all the White House secretaries were present...
...risque play all through; the moments of bogus high comedy which mar the efforts of the smartly cynical gentry are pleasingly absent. The theme is the ancient and unfailing one of seduction--but without any philosophy or moralizing, except for the rationalizing in which any normal man might indulge when unexpectedly surprised in a bedroom with his lithesome stenographer; this bedroom is--as it should be--the center around which the action of the play revolves. It is in this fatal bedroom that Warren Pascal is caught when his fiancee and her brother unexpectedly arrive; poor Warren with admirable technique...
Father Lugena protested that his 15-year-old had just been showing a new driver the laundry route for "a few hours a day," that Moss Jr. had been permitted to absent himself from high school for this purpose...
That telegraph officials say, the same number of forgetful Harvard men do every time St. Valentine's day rolls around. Armed with machine-made sentiments of varying saccharinity, printed on special blanks, the telegraph people are prepared to welcome the onslaught. The absent-minded swain need only choose between such lightsome ditties as, "At miles between us we can laugh, our hearts entwined by telegraph" and the more Victorian, "Cupid's arrows swift and true wing my love...