Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover laid the cornerstone for the new $11,250,000 Department of Labor building on the south side of Pennsylvania Avenue. By remote control he also dedicated the cornerstone for the new Interstate Commerce Commission building, a quarter-mile away. Absent from the latter ceremony were all members of the I. C. C. who claimed they had not been notified in time...
...blood. By itself, alcohol is not warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help promote sleep; those containing alcohol may do so if stimulation is absent or has subsided. The hypnotic action of beer is due in part to the lupulin of the hops rather than to the alcohol content...
...fearful eventualities, and the laws of a Christian civilization will prevent them. But might not lopsided creatures of this type fit in well with the Communist doctrines of Russia?" Aggressively conservative, Winston Churchill's desk-poundings will please many a Fundamentalist in politics. But the next moment with absent-minded effrontery he is apt to give away a point to the enemy: "Democratic governments drift along the line of least resistance, taking short views, paying their way with sops and doles and smoothing their way with pleasant-sounding platitudes. Never was there less continuity or design in their affairs...
...aisle. No business was done. From Denver, Democrat Walter Walker flew to Washington, was sworn in as Colorado's Senator pending the arrival of the official election certificate of Republican Karl Schuyler. Two other new Senators: North Carolina's Robert Reynolds and Washington's Elyot Grammer. Absent was Pennsylvania's Senator Davis, whose right to sit has been questioned since his indictment in connection with the Moose lottery (TIME, Aug. 29; Oct. 10). His wife explained that he had gone to Battle Creek, Mich, for a minor nasal operation...
...Champs Elysées in Paris, on the third anniversary of his death, was dedicated a statue of Wartime Premier Georges Clemenceau, clad in his trench-visiting tin hat and thick coat. Present were President Albert Lebrun, Premier Edouard Herriot, General Max Weygand. Notably absent were Clemenceau's son and two daughters. Long protesting against this "insignificant" monument in a "nonexistent square," they objected also to the statue's muffler, declaring their father never wore...