Word: absents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wearing short pants look absurd in these serious, austere surroundings. Grown men with hairy legs barely covered and short panties resemble ridiculous absent-minded professors. To be sure there was a short-pants campaign last year . . . but this mediocre idea proved a failure...
Unknown Gentleman. This week Cordell Hull returned to Washington to resume his duties. He had been absent, in ill health, six weeks. But his return should not change matters greatly. Grave, saintly Mr. Hull, never an expert at paper-shuffling, has long left the actual administration of the Department to his chief aide, Sumner Welles. And Cordell Hull may choose not to retire. But even if Welles never becomes Secretary, he will still hold his present power: through Presidential choice, his own ability, background and natural stamina, he is the chief administrative officer of U.S. foreign policy...
...Treasury list was incomplete: absent were the big pay checks of M.G.M., Universal Corp. and Columbia Pictures. But SEC records showed that M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer got $697,048, which almost certainly made him 1939's best-salaried employe...
...toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...
...majority of the other games will open today's contest. Captain Doug Anderson will lead the attack, flanked by Fred Benedix, the team's high scorer with seven goals, one-third of the total, and Bill leradi, second highest scorer with four shots into the nets despite being absent part of the season with a log injury...