Word: absently
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...take bankruptcy if necessary, squeeze the water from his company and hold his employes in service until it hurts. (This last is especially applicable to the railroads.) With our feet again on solid ground we can begin to climb safely. We have had quite enough of mental suggestion and absent treatment-let us rather call in old Dr. Adam Smith.* JOHN E. FIELD...
...ranking U. S. player and Richard Norris Williams II, twice (1914, 1916) national champion. He beat Shields with a spurt of brilliance after a slow start. In the first set he seemed indifferent. After a point had been settled he would shamble back to serve or receive with an absent expression, bored, disinterested. Once in difficulties, he showed his best game. Against Williams he lost the second set but then roused, ran away with the match. Next day he beat Hunter for the second time in a week. Erratic and weak at the start, he suddenly worked up a pace...
Secretary Wrexham never sees his employer, who goes abroad after hiring his secretary solely on the strength of his letter of application. Wrexham's only duties are to live in Scrivener's London flat, catalog his library, receive his friends, write occasional reports to the absent employer. One by one Scrivener's friends turn up in search of him, get acquainted with Wrexham, tell him what they think of Scrivener. Each description is different. None of the friends have met, but through Wrexham they become intimate. Complications ensue. Soon Wrexham is convinced that the whole business...
...scoring more seldom. Critics who had considered him sure of a place on the team wondered what would happen if he fails to improve in the next few weeks and is not picked. Such a change, they felt, would upset the present U. S. plan of play. With Guest absent Hitchcock would probably move up from...
...almost excessively well-ordered home of George Marden. English country gentleman, comes Mr. Pim, a gentle, absent-minded old man. seeking a letter of introduction. He gets it and ambles off, leaving the household in ruins. For Olivia, George's wife, has been married before, to a scalawag whose fraudulent stock-company transactions finally landed him in an Australian jail. Five years after his reported death, she married her second husband. But Mr. Pim says he has just come from Australia on the same boat with her first. George is horrorstruck. His love for Olivia is solid and settled...