Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complaints against the Vanderbilt Newspapers, Inc.; Helen G. Sharpe and Anna L. Watson charged that they were persuaded to buy stock by false inducements, because the name of William H. Vanderbilt appeared in the promotion literature of the company as a Vice President and Director. The allegation seems quite absurd; the young Cornelius must have known that William H. died...
...radicalism, however, is so absurd as this, and much of it is still willing to support its convictions with "grenades". The forces are frankly, in the open and sharp, continuous conflict cannot easily be avoided...
Furthermore, it may free us from absurd congressional uttering. An example typifying what we are becoming forced to digest mentally as outbursts of intellectual brilliancy from congressmen, is the cry within the last few, days for a second limitation of armaments conference. Imagine the president being called upon to invite under the present circumstances Japanese delegates to discuss a further limitation of armaments! It would not be surprising to hear of some representative calling for an appropriation to finance a conference of scofflaws who might find a way of persuading a prominent delegate from Florida to the Democratic National Convention...
...freely sprinkled over the ensuing pages. Humorous stories are told of missed cues, scenic mishaps. Madame Janauschek, temperamental, egotistical, flashes meteorically through the pages, is made to live again in her great roles and her off-stage tantrums. There are many amusing episodes of Shakespearean productions; atrocious costumes and absurd scenery failed to detract from the serious and pseudo-scholarly performances of the bombastic hams...
Coaxing oysters to mate is not so easy as it sounds, chiefly because they are not by nature passionate. To get a Cape Cod oyster to look at a Blue Point is difficult enough, but to tease them into falling in love seems absurd. And when it comes down to imploring a Cape Cod or a Blue Point to notice the existence of the bourgeoise such as the East River family, or the "sidey" Chesapeakes, the task appears wholly ridiculous. Oysters are very snobbish and clannish. A Cape Cod never by any chance received an equally aristocratic Blue Point...