Word: absently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quite impossible for me to know what anyone is saying." To Winston Churchill he said: "We are getting very excited . . . Perhaps that is exactly what the Right Honorable gentleman likes to see." Brown weathered the rowdy week, then collapsed from exhaustion, sent word he would be absent until after Easter. Parliament's catering staff, messengers and policemen, also worn to a frazzle, sent a deputation to Chuter Ede, leader of the House. They complained that they got only 15 hours sleep the whole week, asked for relief...
...time the final curtain fell on the Holy Grail drama, many a listener was dabbing at his eyes. Those who could compare it with the Metropolitan Opera's traditional Good Friday Parsifal (untraditionally absent this year) found the Bloomington version staged and acted more cleanly, if musically less professional...
...Speaker Yields. "You must lay down on Uncle Joe," Teddy Roosevelt was advised. "It will be a good deal like laying down on a hedgehog," grinned T.R. One day in 1910, nonetheless, the opposition did lay down on Uncle Joe for keeps. With some of Cannon's standpatters absent on a long weekend, Republican George Norris introduced a resolution shearing the Speaker of most of his vast powers. For three days, Cannon fought the inevitable, then yielded. His four-year "experiment with personal power," as Author Bolles calls it, was over...
Boston College high-scoring star, right wing Jackie Canniff, may fight a losing battle when the Eagles meet the Yardling hockey team in the Arena at 4 p.m. today. Four B.C. players, including the two starting defensement, will be absent because of exams...
...impartiality of critical analysis is absent, for Mizener treats Fitzgerald's writing too much as behavior and too little as literature. And the dialogue and minute personal details necessary to produce a well-rounded biography are too often replaced by detailed analysis of the novelist's literary production and correspondence...