Word: absurdities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loopy? Absurd? " 'You get the feeling over there that people are tired, drained of feeling'. . . . A business executive was walking on cardboard-patched soles for lack of a ration coupon. . .A tiny girl asked, when given a bit of coveted chocolate: 'Do I lick or do I bite?'. . . Factory workers faint around 11 a.m. for lack of adequate breakfasts. . . . 'In two weeks I never saw a piece of meat'. . . Seventy-five pounds of food she brought over prolonged the lives of ten persons...
...English proved not quite so drained of feeling as Loretta thought. When the A.P. story appeared in London papers, Londoners snorted or guffawed. Said a bus conductor: "She must be loopy." "Absurd," snapped Cockney Sally, who' serves afternoon tea in a London office...
Tycoon (RKO Radio) pictures the U.S. ideal of manhood as a construction engineer (John Wayne) who, like the steam shovel he strongly resembles, works all right when he is building things. But he looks absurd trying to speak English or kiss a girl. The U.S. ideal of villainy is represented in this movie as a Latin American rail magnate (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) who dresses for dinner, manages a compound sentence without stuttering, and tries to keep his lovely daughter (Laraine Day) from getting hitched to a steam shovel...
...matter how Indierons the plot, or absurd the characters, it is impossible to dislike a DeMille motion picture. DeMille has captured the romantic spirit necessary to an adventure film, combined it with constant and furious action, and with them has woven a pattern of continuous delight that is never dull for movie audiences over the past twenty-five years...
Gustin conducted his campaign with customary gusto. The proposed charter, like everything Bonfils and Gustin had opposed in the old days, was "absurd, ridiculous, asinine, idiotic, and doesn't make sense." Gustin ignored Post editorials across the page. Post editorials ignored Gustin-except once, when a political advertisement quoted from a Gustin column. Then the Post once more warned readers that Gustin spoke only for Gustin. But the paper made no attempt to edit or censor Gustin's columns. Acknowledged Gustin: "A remarkable demonstration of broadmindedness...