Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the woman, his wife. He goes to jail for murder, is released years later. His major problem is to keep his grown-up daughter away from the evil influence of his wife. Success crowns his efforts when both he and his wife are killed in an absurd climax...
...conception of renouncing war by governmental fiat is inherently absurd...
...abdicated Tashi Lama, has been deserted and desecrated. Lamas, teachers of the people, tell fortunes for alms, by the haunches of mutton, or dice; they beg and cheat; to mystify the ignorant, they mutter squeaky conjurations or play with human bones. The forest-dwelling Buddhists revere arrows and absurd amulets. Conscious reverence for Buddha is held by very...
...nominee upon whom the party had decided was everywhere known to favor modification. To pledge the party against modification would have created an absurd impasse...
...will welcome an opportunity to reorganize and make more efficient the agencies of Government, to the end that the burden of taxation may be lightened. Our platform lays at rest the absurd claim insidiously put out by Republican propaganda that the Republican Party has a monopoly on the mechanics of prosperity...