Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with Radiopriest Charles Edward Coughlin of Detroit, John J. Coughlin is famed as much for his bright waistcoats, his huge paunch and his absurd poetry, as for his losing racehorses. A onetime rubber in a Turkish bath establishment, he saved his tips, opened a bathhouse of his own in 1890. First all-night establishment in the city, it prospered promptly, enabled Bathhouse John to get a grip on the Democratic vote of Chicago's First Ward which he has never lost. Huge, burly, white-haired, he keeps sacks of potatoes and bread to dole out to his constituents...
...items hat the social agitators prefer to leave unmentioned in their "demonstrations for the poor." . . . Miss Blagden may or may not have been a paid social agitator, but that her sole purpose in coming to another State was to hold funeral over a mythical Negro's body is absurd. ... I doubt very much if she actually received from "the huskiest of the six" any blows from a mule's belly-strap. However, whether she did or not, I am only wondering why four strokes from a mule's belly-strap in Arkansas is so much more noticeable...
...light to reach astronomers on Earth. Astronomers cannot even locate the galaxy in respect to Earth at the time the light began its journey, since all heavenly bodies dart continuously through space, and Earth's position aeons ago is unknown. Above all, Philosopher Hawkesworth calls it absurd to plot relative positions of the galaxies, since observers can only note where they were at vastly differing times. Coming down to earth himself, he offers a simple illustration of his point. "A man in a Chevrolet motor car was driving eastward from 18th to 17th Streets along Pennsylvania Avenue [Washington...
Fred Astaire for her, she does all her dances alone, except for one rumba with Cyril Wells. Pleasant, unobtrusive songs by Sam Coslow and Harry Woods include It's Love Again and I've Got to Dance My Way to Heaven. The story, an absurd fable, concerns a society-gossip columnist {Sonnie Hale, Miss Matthews' husband in real life) who has trouble finding a celebrity to write about. A friend (Robert Young) invents one, a glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy...
...bill under complaint were in any way unfair, a voice of objection should certainly be raised. But since payment of the five dollar charge for the second semester was clearly pledged by the would-be defaulters, the imputation of skullduggery on the part of the Dudley committee is as absurd as it is false. And unlike a creditor nation, the University is in a position to collect...