Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where she works as a skimp-skirted waitress. The hero, disguised as a mere reporter, is in reality vice president of a rival film corporation. Love. In the end, everybody marries. The real show is "Peachy" Robinson (Joe E. Brown), rustic Sherlock Holmes. His sleuthing is most unaccountably absurd, occasions a fusillade of wisecracks. Actor Brown's mouth is the dentist's dream. Two human fists can enter here, wiggle around in the spacious cavity. Actor Brown makes full use of his natural asset. Altogether, a better than average entertainment in a season when musical comedy happens...
...award to Bernard Shaw of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature. I refused to explain my stand, saying I was 'not looking for publicity.' I noted that Rebecca West, the distinguished English novelist, is reported to have said: 'In England we all feel it is perfectly absurd the Nobel Prize has never been awarded to Thomas Hardy. It is regarded as a grave reflection upon the manner in which the winner is selected. We don't feel it should go to any one else until Hardy has been recognized...
...Thinker. Fertile, vigorous, imaginative of mind, he disciplined himself to follow only inductive logic-from observation and experiment to hypothesis. He could not rest until he had tried experiments which seemed absurd even to himself. Slow in argument, a poor expositor, he was a great night-thinker, losing much sleep longing to correct possible false impressions. Huxley described "a marvelous dumb sagacity about him ... he gets to truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee." Eternally openminded, he was frank before criticism, glad to acknowledge error, seldom condemned another's views by any word stronger than...
...wife and I have come to a conclusion that you who run this TIME must be either too fresh or awfully crazy, to waste all that space asking useless questions about who reads a magazine, as if you really cared. You ask questions in absurd ways we think too. Who ever called his children "Males from 10 to 20" or "Females" ? What do you care how many automobiles I got ? I bought your magazine, didn't I and that should be enough...
...also unnecessarily hard on children and their parents to put before them sloppily stacked tons of juvenile literature and expect them to choose between what is absurd and what is artistic, entertaining, instructive...