Word: absurder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Portland; 3) introduced in 1953 a banquet speaker who in 1945 had allegedly sponsored a dinner for Paul Robeson. Rogge claimed to represent hundreds of "taxpayers, school patrons and citizens," but refused te say who they were. Though the slur upon the non-Communist Urban League was obviously absurd, the board thought Rogge's charges required investigation, hired a firm of former...
...dead-letter tommyrot from the dust and mildew and present it again to the faculties to sign on the dotted line or else. Apparently Mr. Dorgan is not willing to be forgotten. But why the teachers should not, in a body, refuse to sign that absurd slip which makes them eat humble pie that a few politicians prepared for them is very puzzling...
...months Missionary Stockwell was in solitary confinement. He paced the floor, prayed, made up poems, and studied the Bible. When absurd accusations of spying and conspiracy were made against him, he denied them. Then he got a brainwashing...
...Instead of a definite minority being disappointed by failure to make the House of their choice, virtually everybody will be disappointed. This, we suppose, would "remove inequities," as Mr. Monks puts it, but the idea that this represents an advancement of some sort is absurd...
With all its intricacy, the plot is a standard period vehicle for Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic dialogue and the abilities of the actors. One absurd climax follows another in the fantastic style of the nineteenth century. Fortunately, however, the lines have been spared any tempering, and are as fresh today as they were sixty years...