Word: absents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high command of both parties will awake to the public's opinion of such exaggeration as was spread over six days and nights at the Chicago Stadium and will order a greatly condensed flow of partially sane oratory from nominators and seconders to the relief of listeners absent and present...
...Republican Senate and a Democratic House had been groping and stumbling, hacking and thrashing through the thickest set of national problems that ever sprang up in the U. S. in peacetime. Midnight adjournment found the Senate mouthing over Prohibition, the House swapping political wisecracks and President Hoover absent from the Capitol...
...Berlin the spirit of Germany's younger generation gave Author Hergesheimer pause. From their severe, rather poverty-stricken lives "the customary optimism, the romantic confidence, of youth, were absent. . . ." Most characteristic humor of the town was "a faintly bitter but undisturbed acceptance, of all, all, the realities of existence." To make the realities of existence less onerous for some of them Author Hergesheimer did his best. He took supper at the Swedish Pavilion "with a girl I found swimming at the Freibad," treated her to wild strawberries, lake trout, caviar. He took her home, a 40-minute taxicab ride, left...
...professional father, with his apple-red cheeks and absent-minded ways and her mother, whose sole concern is marrying her daughters well, are of no help. Hanny, her elder sister, is infatuated with a handsome rascal, Warmelo. Tina watches Hanny's miseries, her mother's maneuvers with widening, saddening eyes. Suddenly she is in love herself. When Alf Ten Berge takes her out on the dunes, tries to consummate their love, she is terrified, runs home. Alf marries another girl for spite...
...Whiz Bang, magazine of washroom humor. Publisher Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett used to refer often to "the henna-haired heckler," meaning his wife. Antoinette Fisher Fawcett. Of late such references have been absent. Publisher Fawcett last month got a divorce for infidelity "on occasions too numerous to separately cite." Last week the "heckler"?who prefers to call herself "the red headed dynamo" or "Animated Annette" found a new way to heckle her ex-spouse. With her first alimony checks she bought a neighboring bawdy joke-book called the Calgary Eye Opener, prepared to compete with Captain Billy...