Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absurd to say that the manufacture of war toys is on the decline. You have only to walk along the streets to find children playing with them. A pistol is the worst of all war toys, because it teaches the child the idea of killing by his own hands. Ask any child in the street what he is going to do with his pistol, and he says 'I'm going to kill you.' Other pernicious forms of war toys are the trench games that teach children how to send troops over the top in mass formation...
...pivot, Mrs. Craig, is the familiar type of woman who worships meticulously at the shrine of her Lares and Penotes. These household gods are her all, and it follows that she spends at least a third of her rather selfish life in preserving the domestic perfection of every absurd detail. The author, by taking a small, self-centered soul and depicting its fussy quirks with well-seasoned finesse, has converted her into an entertaining dramatic study...
...shall judge whether the club has or has not occasionally shown the trying Harvard snobbishness? Quite possibly it has; but if so, all we have to remember is that the highbrow is only a little absurd and rather amusing, while the lowbrow is devastating to all that might be fine in our life. The glee club is doing an essential work in the spirit of those lovers of the best men like Charles Eliot Norton and William James, like Royce and Wendell and Santayana--who have created the noblest of Harvard traditions: and it is sad and strange...
...BUTTER AND EGG MAN - What happens to a play before it is produced, and the absurd antics of the curious folk involved...
...connection with this visit, the most absurd stories, which had not a grain of truth in them, were circulated by certain people out of malice. Even my good wife, one of the gentlest and most modest of women, did not escape these false reports. It was falsely whispered, and I believe even maliciously printed, that when the Queen had expressed her wonder at New York, pronouncing it one of the most...