Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Were riots merely absurd they would cause no great concern, but unfortunately they are alarmingly dangerous things. They begin in nothings and spread rapidly to unrestrainable proportions. That last year's disturbance did not lead to serious accidents or to deaths was entirely a matter of good fortune nor is this an exaggerated statement. And it did terminate in a great expense, in a great deal of hard feeling, and in serious consequences for the offenders. The Freshmen of course have no memory of that nor of the great riot several years ago and the impossible situation which it created...
...doctoring" which she did for years. Said she: "Just because I can't move about is no reason why I can't sit still and rehearse a play!" She accused me of being too young to remember her play The Melting of Molly! which, of course, was absurd; for I remember that delightful whimsical tale well. She laughed and joked, received several other callers gayly, disposed of the affairs of the world in a few brisk phrases, in a voice smoothed by southern airs...
...outlying point for only five cents instead of the legally ordained ten? And yet to argue, as Mr. Shepherd probably would, that all these souls will degenerate into safe-crackers, or that they would under temptation steal any sum on which they could lay their hands, is palpably absurd...
...Will the Freshman Class be reduced from 1024 to 585 so that all members may live in the Freshman Dormitories," a CRIMSON reporter asked Dean Bacon yesterday afternoon. "That is absurd," was the Dean's comment, "Equally foolish is the rumor that 50 per cent of the Freshman Class are on probation...
...regard the controversy between" Fundamentalists and Modernists as absurd," said Rev. V. T. Pomeroy of England, Appleton Chapel preacher this week, "because the Fundamentalist's attack hasn't the slightest chance of success. Whatever may be said from a pulpit, it cannot be denied that one lives and profits by a scientifically organized, modern world...