Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absentees. The continued session of Congress and a general lack of interest kept many a familiar G. O. Politician away from Chicago. Senators Borah. Watson and Smoot, prime figures at Kansas City in 1928, were absent. Andrew William Mellon was at his London post. Claudius Huston who led the Hoover "Boy Scouts" four years ago> could not be found around the Stadium. Allan Hoover, a spectator at his father's first nomination, missed his renomination...
...parlor. They pack it off to a gruff old personage named Robert Daniels (Tully Marshall) under the impression that it is his nephew. Daniels' daughter and her husband disappear. A murder appears to have been committed and a dim-witted lady named Sybil (Zasu Pitts) discovers an absent-minded individual dressed in a raincoat who seems to know something about it. Finally, Daniels' daughter and her husband discover the timid embalmer's assistant. He helps to explain matters to the addle-pated police...
Although neither University officials nor Kirkland House tutors would make any definite announcement yesterday concerning the resignation of E. A. Whitney '17 as Master of Kirkland House, it is expected that he will not be active in the University next year, and will probably be absent from Cambridge during the winter...
Simultaneously with the announcement of Professor Schumpeter's election, two leaves of absence for the next academic year were announced at University Hall: Arthur Kingsley Porter, William Dorr Boardman professor of Fine Arts, will be absent the first half-year; James Haughton Woods, professor of Philosophy, for the second half-year...
After a dinner in Washington one evening last week at which Publisher Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News was host, 38 potent newspaper publishers proceeded to the White House and filed into the President's study. Notably absent were William Randolph Hearst and Adolph Ochs of the New York Times. But their presence was unnecessary. The President knew they were favorable towards the proposal he had in mind. He wanted to ask the others if they would help drive a Sales Tax through balky Congress...