Word: absents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Leader Watson was not leading as a good leader should, admitted that the slim Senate quorum might collapse altogether if Senator Watson tried to press the opposition too hard. They speculated to the President on applying cloture to the Senate debate, ordering the Sergeant-at-Arms to arrest absent Senators as a means of maintaining a quorum...
...have never before had a pair, is the very first time. I do it now because I feel I ought to have a change. . . . I have been absent from the Chamber, Mr. President, only for nine days during my service of nearly 28 years. I feel a little exhausted now-more so than when . stood on the floor of the Senate for ten hours a day, week in and week...
...rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about $200,000 worth of trophies, guns, silver, sails and equipment owned by Otto H. Kahn, William G. Vanderbilt, Walter P. Chrysler and others. Their vessels were absent. The fire also destroyed the winter home of the Vanitie, one of the cup defenders...
...handful of the really great attend. The rest cannot be bothered with the ghastly splendor of the ceremonies. But last week one and all turned out. They came in answer to the loudest, shrewdest ballyhoo ever raised in cinema's capital. Besides, they could ill afford to be absent. Admission, for the first time in Hollywood history, was $11 per ticket. They came, also, to see the picture, Hell's Angels. They went away only partly pleased. They had seen incomparably the greatest air spectacle ever projected. They had seen this spectacle woven through a war story...
Coach Fred Mitchell of the Harvard nine has been indisposed for the last few days but is expected to direct the team from the bench today. Coach Janvrin, of the second University team, supervised the workout yesterday. Ticknor, who was absent from the Rhode Island lineup because of an examination, will be back in the game at left field. McGrath will play centerfield and Lupien, right field. The infield combination, as it played in the Rhode Island game will continue with Wood at first base. Captain Nugent on second base, Mays at shortstop, and Des Roches at third base...