Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well during his 17 years on the city council (nine years as president). Oldest residents came. Bankers, waiters, children and firemen came. The Mayor's niece came-Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh. Detroit congratulated itself as well as its mayor. . . . In the night, 18 fiery crosses were seen. "Utterly absurd, silly and foolish," said Mayor Lodge, implying that he could not help it if the Ku Klux Klan had the Spirit...
...career his grandmother had picked out for him, then as a vigorous and successful pugilist. Noted for his winning personality, Actor Denny supplies the expected climax by whacking a fake heavyweight champion and winning his title. Waving his hands and, to indicate annoyance, his ears, Actor Denny is pleasantly absurd...
...other, Agnes Maude Royden was not reinvited to speak in Chicago or Boston, where the women felt that "Miss Royden . . . stood for certain principles which our organization did not care to sponsor ... it might do harm to our youth.'' Detroit women characterized the criticism of Miss Royden as "absurd," but in Philadelphia, after reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge in expressions of fluffy indignation. On the day after her arrival, Agnes Maude Royden gave a lecture...
...humanity is unclouded with impurities of opinion or emotion. Profundities, in one meaning, are avoided. It is as if Authorj Schnitzler had decided that pro; fundities could never be more than inconclusive platitudes and that in a world of chance and mischance, the fragmentary whims of humanity are alone absurd enough to justify comment...
...Christmas Eve Professor Copeland will step to the microphone and speak to an audience which is bound only by interplanetary space. It may not be true that the coughing of the aerial static will be silent as the voice of the host at Hollis 15 travels through the night. Absurd it certainly is to place credence in the rumor that a radio firm has named its newest loudspeaking horn the Cornucopia. Irrelevancies aside, Professor Copeland, whether in Sever 11, the Union, or vibrating the crisp winter air above a million houses is still Copey...