Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes appear around the corner of his morning Times and fix her with a look so deadly that she nearly fell out of her chair. The War Office regarded Doyle with much the same horror when, as early as 1900, he bombarded them with demands for reforms that seemed absurd to British Blimps: rifles (instead of sabers and lances) for British cavalry, foxholes for infantry...
Many of the groups who opposed the pianist's tour feel that as a Nazi sympathizer, Gieseking should not be able to profit from an American concert tour. This feeling is understandable, but again it leads to a damaging error. This position follows logically to the absurd proposition that American cannot buy goods made by any Germans who condoned the Nazi government. If Gieseking cannot profit from the sale of his talent, the many millions of Germans like him should not be able to profit either...
...Toni Seven). Heiress to an estimated $3,000,000, Toni is the daughter of Silent Star June Caprice and Director Harry Millarde. While the tabloids were still eating up every new rumor, the Senator appeared in Washington. Had he and Toni been married in the desert? Said he: "Completely absurd." In Hidden Valley, Calif., Toni said: "I feel very bad about the whole thing . . . I love him enough to step out of the picture if publicity would hurt his career...
...vicious sides to [this ridiculous] practice is that often you are bound in such a manner that you cannot go to any other source to get the story . . . Every time you bind yourself in one of these absurd confidences, you get scooped. Let the pundits take over all the off-the-record conferences. Let them use the oblique references. Let our own staffs go back to reporting...
...seem very depressed about it. When Sam Goldwyn fired her after she had pleaded illness in postponing a New York publicity junket ("the day is over when stars can get away with this sort of behavior"), Teresa Wright said she would never sign another standard "archaic . . . and . . . absurd" movie contract, because it treated actors like cattle. The exchange of unpleasantries happily coincided with a new Goldwyn picture called Enchantment (see below), starring Teresa Wright...