Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thus far. And notwithstanding that we deprecate, as much as any, all unmannerly gibes and epithets as tending to our own harm the most, still we claim that Mr. Wilde is a proper subject for reasonable satire and even ridicule, in all that in him is plainly exaggerated and absurd, - which is by no means little. For it is only in this way that the public is permitted to defend itself against the cant of his sentiment and the sophistry of his pretence. As a matter of taste (and we but repeat the opinions of other judges who are more...
...papers may be of interest to our readers. Nearly all are of the opinion that it was a good joke, and nothing more. The Herald of Wednesday morning said: "None of the Harvard boys made any disturbance upon entering. All sat quietly throughout the lecture, and, save by their absurd dress, they were a credit to the audience. . . . The intention of the immature young persons from the Harvard freshman class to disturb the lecture by appearing in the midst of it with their masquerade, were baulked by Mr. Wilde, who had been given an inkling that something...
...Scoville pronounces as absurd the rumor that Mr. Scoville was about to apply for a divorce...
Genevieve Ward says of his precious loveliness, now starring the country: "I've known him since he was a boy, and Oscar was very nice until he got this absurd aesthetic notion in his head. He began by wearing yellow cravats; sometimes he and Mrs. Langtry, who is really very beautiful, would come to see me play, and she generally carried a lily or two in her hand...
...trying to urge the freshmen to attend the "Black Crook" in a body. The freshmen have now been in college long enough to know better than to do such a foolish thing, and we hope that these few mischief lovers will desist from their attempt to make an absurd display of themselves...