Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Princeton University Library acquired an arithmetic notebook kept by a 14-year-old New Jersey schoolboy back in 1721. Sample problem: "A Certain man and his wife did usually drink out a vessell of beere in 12 dayes and the Husband found by offten experience That his wife being absent it would Last him 20 dayes then. Question is how many dayes the wife would be a drinking it alone...
...long after, François impulsively doffed his Benedictine habit, and went absent without leave on a grand tour of the French universities. He became first a theologian, then a lawyer, then a doctor-in all, one of the most erudite men of his age. He was almost 40 when he began writing his tales of Gargantua and Pantagruel, partly for love of writing, but partly for need of money...
...women & children with thin, bony figures and a quality of patient loneliness. "My fundamental interest is human beings," he explains. "The most important moments in life are those which occur when two people feel so intensely related to one another that there is nothing to say. Words being absent, appearance is everything...
International fame came to him when he created a slow-motion, absent-minded detective named Inspector Maigret, who got his man in a new book almost every month between 1929 and 1931. Maigret was later put on the shelf in favor of serious psychological novels, but Simenon still gets him down for an occasional workout to please such fans as T. S. Eliot, Deems Taylor, Claude Rains...
...flying overcoat tails and left him hung corseted, pitiful and helpless against the barracks' wall, with toes inches from the ground. The streaming mass of humanity fighting for place in ranks ignored his screams, the last bugle note faded, rolls were checked and companies dismissed. Only then, officially absent from formation, did he get a helping hand. Now, 25 years later, the slightest allusion to the incident still gets you an invitation out behind the garage...