Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Willy, Willy, all right." Gulls clanged overhead. Sharks gloated in the water about the plane, flashing their bellies and clamping their cruel, effeminate jaws in a manner that has been described in thousands of sea stories. Water gave out. Commander Rodgers produced a tiny still which he carried along, absurd machine though it was, because his mother asked him to. With it he made the sea water drinkable, and kept himself and his crew alive until the submarine grooved a way to them...
...cannot forbear protesting the absurd criticism of TIME which you saw fit to publish in LETTERS, Aug. 31 issue - from which circumstance it derives its only claim for consideration. Never did I see a more inane, vacuous assertion than that the editing of TIME "is purely a mechanical operation requiring no literary ability." For it seems to me that more cleverness, more brains, go into the composition of a single issue of TIME than any other journal I know. It's so bright, for one thing, that I have definitely decided to cancel my subscription to "our leading humorous...
...thick glasses. He kicks, punches, smokes black cigars at 14, reviles his mother's name. His father and Aunt Emily slowly humanize him. He dies of pneumonia at precisely the right moment to make the thwarted lives and love of those two seem quite noble-but a little absurd...
...this Chicago recommendation from sponsoring an "all work and no play" policy. More drastic is a recommendation made last winter (TIME, Jan. 19) by The New York World, which quite omitted the rotating-semester feature, saying with cold logic: "It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten-weeks summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...more stories of an amazing character were told and believed regarding Woodrow Wilson than any other great American of my time. There has perhaps never been in Washington a high public official more rigid in his personal rectitude than the man now dead. . . . One of the most absurd of these rumors was to the effect that he had become violently insane...