Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very glad to have your letter of regret and apology for the Crimson's absurd and false report of my talk at Leverett House. If future boards emulate your desire to "take every conceivable step to prevent any recurrence of the same trouble:", perhaps some good will come out of evil, The evil is not confined to the wrong to the individual when there may be general university or public interests involved...
...Tigers. Baseball, even more than most games, gives rise to absurd speculations. Whether the Cubs would arrive at the World Series fatigued and nervous because of their long winning streak or whether this merely indicated that they were "hot," was one delicate question which experts were trying to settle last week. Another was whether the Detroit Tigers would start comfortably rested or in the throes of a letdown. The Tigers became mathematically certain of winning the American League pennant last fortnight but long before that their victory had been an overwhelming probability. The Cleveland Indians, favorites in the spring, never...
...individuals are not. The equality of their rights is an illusion. The feeble-minded and the man of genius should not be equal before the law. The stupid, the unintelligent, those who are dispersed, incapable of attention, of effort, have no right to a higher education. It is absurd to give them the same electoral power as the fully developed individuals...
...have had 20 years in which to grow accustomed to the methods of Cecil Blount DeMille by now have some idea what to expect in a DeMille version of the Holy Wars. The Crusades should fulfill all expectations. As a picture it is historically worthless, didactically treacherous, artistically absurd. None of these defects impairs its entertainment value. It is a $1,000,000 sideshow which has at least three features which distinguish it from the long line of previous DeMille extravaganzas. It is the noisiest; it is the biggest; it contains no baths...
Tennis, a game in which size and muscle would appear to be indispensable, always includes one or more practicing peewees. Like Bill Johnston and Bryan ("Bitsy") Grant, Mrs. Arnold, 120 Ib. and just 5 ft., often looks absurd when she comes out on the court, smiling shyly up at her opponent whose subsequent beating becomes all the more distressing. It would be in accurate to say that Mrs. Arnold's apparent limitations as a player disappear when her matches start. She covers the court in a series of wild scrambles, hits a jerky forehand that looks better suited...