Word: absents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ferguson, McLean professor of Ancient and Modern History, will be on sabbatical leave during the second half of 1932-33. E. F. Gay, professor of Economic History, will likewise be absent for the second half of 1932-33 and the first half...
...skidded into the soft grass and wrecked its landing gear. Out of the cabin crawled two rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight earlier had sailed for Guantanamo Bay. Neither was a licensed flyer, although Gushing claimed to have soloed. To bring fame to themselves and their ship, they had planned the flight. They funded their savings of $1,200, somehow raised...
Leader of the group was Waldo Frank. Notably absent from the entourage was Author Dos Passes, who was off in Mexico. Corliss Lamont, philosophy professor at Columbia University and son of Banker Thomas William Lamont, said he had expected to go along but was too busy. However, Mr. Frank's party mustered Edmund ("Bunny") Wilson, literary critic; Editor Malcolm Cowley of the New Republic; drowsey-eyed Mary Heaton Vorse who reports labor troubles better than she writes novels; Playwright Harold Hickerson; Charles Walker, admired for a book called Steel; a 60-year-old Greenwich Village doctor named Elsie Reed Mitchell...
...action by the whole House. In the spacious mahogany-trimmed committee room was held a field day for Texans. Congressman Patman prosecuted Mr. Mellon; Alexander White Gregg, Texas-born son of a deceased Texas Congressman, defended Mr. Mellon. Congressman Hatton Sumners of Dallas, Judiciary chairman, presided as judge. Notably absent was Mr. Mellon who at that precise moment was appearing down the corridor before the Ways & Means Committee with his plan for tax-upping...
...penchant for duels, has fought two, tried to fight two more (the latest only last year, with "a French man of letters who had said injurious things about Henry James"). He claims to be the inventor of the famed spinach joke, gives his original version: "An absent-minded man took a lady in to dinner. Soles were handed around and he took one with his fingers. Seeing the lady look surprised he said: 'Oh, I thought it was spinach...