Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eisenstein's much touted genius seems conspicuously absent in "Thunder Over Mexico," on more than one occasion. Time is of no account to this master. Art is art. Despite all adverse criticism, I recommend this film to you on the merits of the beautiful photography without which Eisenstein would be lost. Mexico is laid before you, beautiful at times, monotonous at others, but always fascinatingly real...
...faculty was sitting for its portrait, he eased Dean Pound out of his accustomed place in the centre of the picture. Others in the picture: Samuel Williston, 72, foremost U. S. authority on contracts, Thomas Reed Powell, 53, Zechariah Chafee Jr., 48, Manley Ottmer Hudson, 47, Sam Bass Warner. Absent: Francis Bowes Sayre, 48, criminal law expert and son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson who last November went to Washington as Assistant Secretary of State; Felix Frankfurter, 51, author of the Securities Act, and this year's exchange professor at Oxford, whose friends think his good friend Franklin Roosevelt...
...Sabbath morning 27 years ago the preachers of New York City looked over their congregations to find many of their most prominent parishioners absent. That same morning there was a dress rehearsal of Richard Strauss's Salome at the Metropolitan Opera House. To it had gone many a rich and respectable churchgoer to see how Olive Fremstad would exhibit her fanatical lust for the body of St. John the Baptist. The churchgoers were offended enough by the screaming dissonances and the way Fremstad brought the horrid head up to the footlights, caressed the matted black hair, kissed the cold...
...Washington's Mayflower Hotel was held the chief celebration. But conspicuously absent among the 800 guests at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation banquet were surviving members of the Wilson official family. For them, there has been small welcome at the New Deal fireside. Newton Diehl Baker was practicing law in Cleveland. Carter Glass was busy holding his tongue, lest in an irrepressible moment it cry out against an Administration in which he has little confidence. John William Davis was playing holiday golf in Charleston, S. C. The only Wilsonite who had been given a high post in the new Administration...
Pointedly absent was Chancellor Hitler. Night before the Reichstag met he had summoned all the Deputies, made them swear personal fealty to himself and then rushed off to Wilhelmshaven to greet the German battle cruiser Koln on her return from a round-the-world "goodwill cruise...