Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unnecessarily hard on children," said the fatherly New York Times in a recent editorial, "to put before them sloppily written stories of impossible people in an absurd world...
...charge of sensationalism must remain absurd. Perhaps the protests of upperclassmen may be explained by resentment at any tentative attempt to invest the Freshman Dormitories with those attributes which have for so long been the monopoly of the Gold Coast. But anyone who finds sensationalism in the mild comment of the reports in question betrays a purposeful search that does him more discredit than the reports could do to any Freshman...
...responded heartily, for we are great friends. "Thanks for trying to help me out last Saturday," he continued. For, as you all remember. I tried to instill confidence at the last moment into Jess's team by predicting they would score 27 points against Yale. Now wasn't that absurd? Ofcourse. I couldn't carry the deception so far as not to give Yale's correct total of 14, not even for an old friend like Jess. Anyway, it was no use, but Jess appreciated it just the same...
...caught a minnow in the Adirondacks, Marie of Roumania and Fifth Avenue, Marie of Roumania and Gopher Prairie, Marie of Roumania and the Grand Canon, Marie and the Pacific, Marie! Thus does the American press take to its heart the beloved of the Balkins and worry those who, with absurd faith in the direct desire of all Americans at all times for democracy, see in this primativism an accute absense of decorum...
These would be absurd quibbles in a picture where every other prospect pleased and lived up to expectations, but those failures were typical. The Campus Flirt compared to "Variety", the German film, which is touring the backstreets of Boston, as a road show of "Uncle Tem's Cabin" compares to Iolanthe. Any one of Mack Sennet's directors could have thrown together a better chorus of track ladies with ten minutes notice, and provided better comedy than was afforded here...