Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...implication that the Princess Jane was in any way annoyed is absurd as she never dances and. after a delightful dinner, with "the most charming young man she had ever met" her only interest was in seeing that the two Princes enjoyed themselves...
...proposed, the restrictions are petty. One may mow a lawn or stoke a furnace or sweep a floor for a landlady and make that and the action fine, but not for a neighbor in order to make money to pay the landlady. And there are other provisions as absurd. All told, they would affect so few as not to be worth a protest were it not for the implications or for the immediate inconveniences caused by taking the step without adequate warning to those who are already here or on the way. As Dr. Cooper, the United States Commissioner...
...have religious understanding crammed into them by ukase, and he further assumes that students will benefit spiritually by enforced religious discipline. The idea that the sum total of a large number of people can all have that conception of and feeling toward a Delty which is religion, is patently absurd. Those familiar with the history of English-speaking peoples, from the days of Chaucer to our own, know that there has always been a large amount of definite irreligious even under an established church. There are at all times large groups of people who apparently have no need for religion...
...American air bases are being planted on the Aleutian Islands," (some 2,000 miles from Japan), assertions that "mysterious American women are spying in Japan" and rehashes of the undeniable fact that the entire U. S. fleet is maneuvering in the Pacific Ocean. "Personally, I think the charges are absurd," barked War Minister Sadoo Araki in his office. "They merely reflect the nervousness of some overzealous persons, frightened at imaginary dangers." Such overzealous persons included the entire Japanese gendarmery, directly subordinate to tut-tutting Lieut.-General Araki. Japanese reporters, calling at offices of the gendarmery, had their worst fears confirmed...
...Debts will not be a problem-we shall not have to cancel them-if we are realistic about providing ways in which payment is possible through the profits arising from the rehabilitation of trade. . . . The Republican position has been the absurd one of demanding payment and making payment impossible. This policy forced a moratorium. Our policy declares for payment but at the same time for lowered tariffs and resumption of trade which open the way for payment...