Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sort of comic sequel to A Letter to Three Wives, which showed how a rumor of infidelity affected a trio of young suburban matrons. The current picture shows the way five husbands and their wives react to the news that they are not legally married. An absent-minded justice of the peace (Victor Moore) had married them before his commission went legally into effect...
Sharing the honors with their heavier compatriots, the lightweight varsity crew recaptured the Goldthwait Cup, absent since '4S, as they won over Yale and Princeton in Saturday's Tigertown regatta. The victory marks the 12th time Harvard has held the cup, compared to Yale's nine and Princeton...
Taft supporters tried hard to claim a moral victory for their absent candidate. Said John D. M. Hamilton, Taft's eastern campaign manager: "For a candidate who was supposed to have political appeal, General Eisenhower has made a very sorry showing in New Jersey." But Governor Alfred Driscoll, elected as an Eisenhower delegate after a fierce anti-Driscoll campaign by the Taft forces, snapped out a sharp retort: "A loss by 150,000, in a comparatively small vote in an election conducted in horrible, weather, is certainly not a moral victory. It is a defeat. Mr. Hamilton is still...
Then the people began to have their say. The absent Ike's victory over a campaigning Senator Robert Taft in New Hampshire on March 11 was impressive enough. But when the Republican voters of Minnesota went to the polls through snow and mud and wrote in Ike's name nearly 107,000 times, the clear call was unmistakable. Linked together, the results of New Hampshire and Minnesota became a striking and momentous demonstration that an Eisenhower boom of tremendous proportions is sweeping across the land...
...Keenan, absent from the House because of Illness, could not be reached for comment last night...