Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confidant of the entire family, because, as he is constantly being told, he has "been in the Army"; he tunes the piano, repairs the boilers, plays the saxophone and makes himself generally agreeable. By the third act, Cora has switched her love to Clarence and Mrs. Wheeler is evincing absurd symptoms in his direction; the household affairs are finally solved by the hero and Miss Piney leaving to get married. The very effective end finds Cora alone on the stage murmuring with all the pathetic tearfulness of a disillusioned woman, "Clarence! Oh, Clarence...
...jobs every day. Seventy-five men waited out in the cold for several hours on the chance of being one of the two men wanted for one day's work. When you have seen such conditions you can realize the often-asked question of where the workers get their absurd idea of restricting output. If you see the pile of raw material getting smaller and smaller every hour, and your job going with it, you feel pretty sore...
...suggestion that American constitutional liberties might be interfered with by the existing League of Nations would be merely absurd, if it did not insidiously suggest to weaklings a formidable danger...
...question of the miners refusing the advice of their leaders, that is absurd. Robert Smillie has been a figure of national importance in England and always he has been in the miners' van, not tagging along behind trying to hold them back by the tall. EDWARD M.RUBIN...
...reckless charges that Harvard is bought with British gold, that all our social institutions are polluted with British Incre, the imputation is compellingly absurd. Even those who are incognizant of the liberty of expression with which the university community is blessed, will find it amusing to recall that a twelvemonth since Harvard was a "hotbed of radicals," in the pay of Bolshevist agents; while today they are hirelings of "Lloyd George and his Tories." Moreover, any cry that may be raised against the possible expenditure of English money for propaganda on this side of the Atlantic is put to ridicule...