Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cures for every malady under the sun are periodically reported in the public prints. When the stories are not actually made out of whole cloth or based on absurd misinformation, the announcements are usually premature or published by some enterprising reporter before the methods have been scientifically investigated or published in medical literature. A number of such remedies, recently reported, may or may not be in this class, but facts at hand are so meager that they can merely be listed, and must await scientific confirmation...
...particular magazine in question does not matter so much. But the volume should be ten years old or overtime enough for the women's clothes in the illustrations to look absurd. Otherwise you might remember some of the stories...
...prohibits flying "at an altitude of less than two thousand feet" over a field used for exhibitions and demonstrations. But it does not clearly cover some parts of the fields where crowds may be collected?outside the entrances, or where the cars are parked?and provides for the absurd fine of not less than $300, or 90 days in jail...
...asinine. On the whole, however, the stories are braced up by the ingenious manner in which the reader becomes interested in the teller of the stories--Gibson himself--rather than in the stories, and it is really to follow him through, to see why he tells these absurd lies and to find out what becomes of him that the book is read to the end; as individual stories they are mediocre, as a collection of stories they become interesting...
Doubtless such extromes of casuistry will seem absurd not only to foreign nations but to a large number of Americans. But the absurdity lies not in Mr. Mellon's ruling, it lies in the wording of the prohibition laws. However much power fanatical Drys may believe our government to have over the rest of the world, the makers of the law had no swollen imaginations. They merely lacked foresight. The new ruling is at best a make-shift and it can be expected that at the next meeting of Congress the cause of the absurdity will be properly remedied...