Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richberg, in his recent Boston speech, reflected the attitude of New Dealers which is most persistent and most absurd. In effect he said, "We have done all we can to help industry. While it was on its back, we filled its place by hiring millions. When destructive competition threatened, we stepped in and fixed prices and wages, thus helping industry last through its troubles. When banks were weak, we lent money to them, we bought their assets, we guaranteed their deposits. But we cannot do this forever. Now is the time for private industry and banks to take the burden...
...Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...absurd to claim that rich men who are excused for one reason or another from a certain variety of taxes should pay them anyway, out of the goodness of their hearts, they will spend their money as they see most fit. Considering that the government is made up of politicians who are more interested in keeping people at work in the industrial system than in keeping up the educational facilities of the country, donations to the government would undoubtedly not have lessened the curtailment which Dr. Dewey has found. Obviously the fact that rich men did not pay income taxes...
...CRIMSON cannot excuse its "liberalism" with the absurd statement that Fascism is foreign to the United States. For Fascism is really the use of brute force by the ruling class to preserve capitalism. In the United States we see such examples of it as Vigilante terror on the West Coast and vicious strike-breaking and anti-union activities throughout the country...
...further definitely determined to do everything in its power to avoid the slightest semblance of a mass attack by a disgruntled and radical minority upon the University, making impossible and extreme demands with a vaporous and absurd threat of scandal mongering and ballyhoo...