Word: absentmindedness
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...grey hair arrived unexpectedly in Bucharest, from Moscow. Andrei Januari Vishinsky, Soviet Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs, looked more than ever like an absentminded, amiable professor. But the Kremlin's ace trouble-shooter - and the tigerish prosecutor of the Moscow Old Bolshevik trials - had not come out of absentmindedness...
They spend 15 minutes a day five times a week dramatizing the failure of the butcher to deliver the meat, the business of buying a Christmas present for the boss, the question of closed barbershops on Sunday, etc. They, plus their adopted son Russell, plus Uncle Fletcher, an absentminded, somewhat...
Adrian Conan Doyle, younger son of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, himself set pen to paper in an attempt to settle the aging argument about the identity of Sherlock's prototype. To the London Daily Telegraph he wrote: "The fact is my father, himself, was Sherlock Holmes. It was...
Where Were You on . . .? Harold George Christie, 47, Bahama born & reared, wealthy, unmarried and a close friend and real-estate associate of Sir Harry Oakes, spent the night at Westbourne, in a room 18 feet away from the murder. No servants slept in. He testified that a storm awakened him...
As a flyer Gil Winant was absentminded. But he led a charmed life. The day before a big drive he came back from reconnaissance duty with 90 bullet holes in a wing and the motor half torn off. He took up another plane, had it shot from under him, spent...