Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...duplicate dashboard for rear-seat riders. . . . Exhibitors were hopeful Hollywood cinemastars will approve of the lavishness of the models, to be displayed in Los Angeles the first week in February, the Salon's next stop before closing in San Francisco in February's third week. Conspicuously absent were the usual large number of foreign cars, Minerva and Isotta Fraschini being the only importations. Isotta bodies are made by famed Castagna of Milan. President of the U. S. Isotta sales company is Ugo V. D'An-nunzio, son of Italy's Poet-Soldier Gabriele D'Annunzio...
...honest and capable, but gave Jane nary a thrill. Ernest was a bright one, talked socialism at her 16 to the dozen; when he paused for breath took liberties. Jane did not really like him but he did excite her. But when handsome, aristocratic Artist Bryan gave her an absent-minded kiss, got her to pose for him in the nude, Jane lost her heart...
...automobile on which he still owed payment. This commercial venture lands the young man in the workhouse for a spell and when he comes home, in Act I, instead of being invited to share the fatted calf, he is offered a small sum of money if he will forever absent himself from England...
Changes in the diamond horseshoe were few. It was whispered that old Mrs. Vanderbilt had done the incredible: rented her box for occasional performances. Absent was John North Willys, having transcended motor car making in Toledo to be U. S. ambassador to Poland while Mrs. Willys buys expensive art in Paris and their plump daughter travels about with her Argentine husband. Absent also was Edward Stephen Harkness, in Europe for the winter. But no one was so sincerely missed as Tom Bull, the courtly, white-haired gentleman who for 42 years took tickets at the front door, last summer died...
...leather and somewhat sombre respectability of the Ritz Carlton contributed an air of calm that is quite unusual in theatrical interviews, but Miss Margalo Gilmore of "Berkeley Square" succeeded in providing sufficient zest to compensate for the absent back stage excitement it was a sort of fire without the smoke arrangement which is to say that it was somewhat of a simplification of the ever-present, bold intrusiveness of an interviewer...