Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mother Advocate has indeed, changed very slightly. She was always a little absent minded and impractical and she still clings to her absurd habit of writing verse. The Gentleman, on the other hand, has been content to forget the romantic tendencies of his youth and to plunge into the whirl of business, with the result that he has now a mansion, a gold watch fob, and a bank account of his own. But he has also something more valuable a reputation that none can respect and honor more than Mother Advocate. --Harvard Advocate...
...Saving Grace of humor is lacking in some very religious people, and thus absurd sects arise and flourish. Dr. Pollock, of Los Angeles, solemnly told radio fans last week that Zacharia 9:14 contains a prophecy of radio. (The passage reads: "And Jehovah shall be seen over them, and His arrow shall go forth as the lightning.") He even more solemnly declared that the millenium is not far off, because the automobile has fulfilled the prophecy of Nahum 2:4. ("The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways; the appearance of them...
...made my way into the main lobby of the hotel, I decided that the surest way to force people of this sort to feel my contempt was to use the place just as they do, in their absurd dress suits. Accordingly, I edged through the crowd gathered in the lobby to a man in uniform standing in their midst, evidently one of the higher flunkeys. When I reached him, I said in a clear, careful voice, "Call me a bell...
...wife. He plays cribbage.with her, reads to her from Clarissa Harlowe, eats delicate meals with her. Day after day she reverts more and more into a fox, and at last is killed by the hounds. Mr. Garnett might easily have been grotesque, sensational and melodramatic, or merely absurd. Instead, he has written a fable in the best tradition. His style is serious and poetic; he avoids the obvious grotesqueness of his story, and achieves a work...
...style and characterization are fully adequate, which is much more than can be said of the average present-day story of murder and mystery. Of course from some aspects the whole thing is absurd, but then what really exciting tale of this kind...