Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Messrs. H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (editors of Smart Set) have long offered a custard pie (size 3½ by 4¾, actually baked and delivered) as prize for each month's most reprehensibly absurd statement in public print...
Referring to may letter about the singing of "Johnny Harvard" a song which glorifies Drink at the Harvard-Oxford Debate, you say: "A ban now on all such jolly old songs would be much like the absurd ban on the teaching of German in this country during the War." Should not the comparison be however, with the singling, during the War, of a song to glorify Germany and I think you would hardly have approved of that, Let us think straight. DRLCRVARR KINO...
...have clipped out that absurd dialogue and sent it to a friend of mine at Baliot All England should enjoy a loud laugh at our expense. They are the wittiest race on earth, and Johnny Harvard was of them. Fill him up a glass. WALTER CLINE...
...seems necessary for the college to disown these men. At the time when this and many other old Harvard songs were written Prohibition had not yet made the convivial board a rare and clandestine affair. A ban now on all such jolly old songs would be much like the absurd ban on the teaching of German in this country during...
Their wives, too, are of the literary persuasion: Inez Haynes Irwin writes girls' stories and novels, and Mrs. Wallace Irwin writes plays, to say nothing of Mr. Irwin's niece, Phyllis Duganne, who, at the absurd age of 20 (or was it 21?) published her first novel and has since become remarkably well known as a writer of short stories...