Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jolson is the most valuable entertainer in the world. It is established that he, more than any living man or woman, can summon the audience to the palm of his white-gloved hand and hold it there. To his enemies-and he has a few-these statements will seem absurd. Survey of the reception he received in Big Boy guarantees them none the less...
...absurd for New York City to retain a school calendar devised for the purpose of releasing big boys from rural school for haying and harvesting. It is absurd for healthy children in high school to have a ten weeks' summer vacation, with weeks off at Christmas and Easter, when their hard-worked fathers, who pay for it all, get little or none...
...absurd and humiliating that American children of equal intelligence lag two years behind their more favored contemporaries in the better class of European schools...
...absurd that the billion-dollar investment in school buildings is dark so much of the time...
...worse than absurd, it is an educational crime, that our poor children who are not going on to college have not as much educational opportunity as would easily be possible before they get to work...