Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican floor leader and now a -candidate for the G. O. P. Speakership, began to talk about "co- operation" between the parties in the next House "for the good of the country." The final result, however, depended on two imponderables: i) possible deaths in the next three weeks; 2) absent members whose vote could not be cancelled out with a "pair...
...cannot understand how your newsgatherers came to give you such a statement, for it is without foundation in fact. I was at my post uninterruptedly fulfilling my official functions for several months before and after the change of government, and not only was I not absent from the city of Madrid during the entire time of the revolutionary crisis but I .did not even leave the Embassy premises except on official business for many days...
...room home of Nunzio Russo, Chicago's "macaroni king," was wrecked by two nitroglycerine explosions and fire while Russo & family were absent. Damage was variously estimated between...
...party leader's choice of War Minister Manuel Azana to be Provisional President and Premier? No one had the slightest objection. Dead tired Deputies rested their raw throats, their heaving lungs. Amid utter silence Spain's new Chief Executive was chosen unanimously (the 50 pious clericals remaining absent). Up the steps of the Assembly Tribune at once climbed President Azana, brisk and stern. Jerking a paper from his waistcoat pocket he read out his new Cabinet...
...suspicion has crossed my mind that it has perhaps been easier for our traducers to gain a hearing than it has been for our defenders Here & there a physician has raised his voice, not always, I am sorry to say, with very profound wisdom, but lay defenders are notably absent, and I find it rather hard to believe that an occasional satisfied layman, an occasional grateful patient, has not tried to say something in our favor...