Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that without much effort. Saturday saw Charles Devens, as one-man ball team, aided by other members of the squad, notably Wood and his long distance home run clout, administer Columbia a fitting revenge for an early season upset, 8 to 3. But yesterday the genius of Devens was absent from the pitchers box, and the infield which usually supports him so well collapsed behind the adequate pitching of Taylor. Devens played in centre field and hit the only double of the contest...
...only biography which can be accused of being "novelized." If he has any faults, his chief one, as he himself admits, is probably politeness. Mr. Maurois has become too well acquainted with his subject to be other than grateful. That is why the aloof sarcasm of Strachey is largely absent. Mr. Maurois attempts at all times to understand. In "A Private Universe" he gives advice to young Frenchmen departing for England and America. "Give logic a rest while you are over there," he tells the first. "But enjoy the general spectacle." To the second: "Fashion within yourself an America...
...characters, Lord Litchfield (Halliwell Hobbs) who, when his horse King Midas wins the Derby, invites all the people who have held winning lottery tickets to a party at his house. Evelyn Beresford (Elissa Landi) turns up, accompanied by a scapegrace Army officer whose wife is absent and in poverty. The officer (Paul Cavanagh) plays cards with a clownish prizefighter (Victor McLaglen) and wins. The prizefighter tries to steal from his mother (Beryl Mercer) to pay the money and his mother dies of fear. The prizefighter then kills the caddish officer for cheating in the card game. Elissa Landi is suspected...
...dwelling. Norwegians in Manhattan last week could agree on no translation of Gissa. Mrs. Cohu was absent in Norway...
...Langer, associate professor of History, and to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, for the academic year 1932-33, in order that each may carry on research work under a grant from the Bureau of International Research. Kuang-Ti Mei, assistant professor of Chinese, will be absent for the academic year...