Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From p. 42, TIME, Aug. 10: "Two athletes who recently competed in European track events as women were later transformed into men by sex operations." Do you really enjoy being inexact, indefinite and absurd all in one sentence...
...organizations like the National Manufacturers Association have used the phrase 'free from interference from any source' to mean a denial of the right of a labor union or labor unions actively to promote the organization of an unorganized factory or an unorganized industry. It is absurd to talk about Labor's rights to organize if in every factory workers, more or less at the mercy of the owners of their jobs, must organize spontaneously without any help from their fellows. Is this the interpretation to be given your words...
Irish wit could have produced nothing more grossly absurd, for there was no evidence that His Majesty has anything so foolhardy in mind as trying to put the two irate parts of Ireland together. In Dublin recently a Catholic alderman warned the Lord Mayor that he will probably be manhandled if he attends His Majesty's Coronation. Last week President de Valera formally announced that that piece of pageantry will be boycotted by his Free State which by no means has King Edward in a baby carriage...
...which started fortnight ago, after the sun's rays had been used to kindle a fire in the ruins of the Temple of Zeus. At Paracin, Yugoslavia, last week, the flame went out when a runner got a defective torch which burned only two minutes. Faced with the absurd prospect of continuing the Torch Relay without a torch, he scrambled quickly into an automobile, rode on to the next relay point. Re-lit, the flame crossed the Hungarian border at 6 a. m., reached Budapest in the evening. Next day, its progress through Austria was the occasion...
...mildly lubricious novel. Consequently the full quota of Harlow appeal which the picture contains had to be injected gradually rather than in short strong doses. Aside from the stuffy epic manner which ill befits its subject, it is a fair sample of its school-frivolous, kinetic and absurd, but not without real moments...