Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proprieties over groups that affect to live like nymphs and fauns. The truth of the matter seems to be that the average nudist is a puritan. . . . He notes with triumph that he experiences no wicked reactions to visions that are allegedly wicked. This indulgence may seem thoroughly absurd; but when the League of Decency sets out to have it pronounced immoral, is it not simply compounding an absurdity...
...Manhattan three days later, Mrs. Williams, wife of the rich and retiring utilitarian, registered mild surprise when she heard the news, indignation when she learned that the shrewd couturiers had insisted that no wardrobe such as hers could be maintained for less than $50,000 per year. Exclaimed she : "Absurd ! How perfectly silly! I never spent that much on clothes. Why, with all the entertaining and traveling I do, I don't spend more than $20,000 a year on clothes...
...abated," The Complete Wine Book proposes to tell U. S. amateurs how to know, buy, store, make, serve wines. Far from first of its kind in the field, it is most complete, most up-to-date of the lot. Written plainly, authoritatively, it attacks the "ridiculous ritual" and "absurd snobbishness" which have sprung up around U. S. wine-drinking, appeals to common sense rather than pretentious palates...
Down upon the thick skull of one Gottfried Feder in his student days crashed the flat of a heavy dueling sabre. Never quite the same afterward, unsuccessful Civil Engineer Feder began to preach an absurd distinction on which was founded the Nazi Party. He thought there were two kinds of capital, good and bad, raffendes and schaffendes, "grasping capital" and "creative capital." Often but not always one could tell bad capital by the fact that it was possessed by Jews. Only good capital had any proper place in the Fatherland. Orating along these lines in a beer hall, Messiah Feder...
...tomorrow we attack this world's record of $44,000. We hope to sell $50,000. . . . It's really absurd to expect we can accomplish this task. It means selling 250 sets an hour for eight hours?four sets every minute?one set every 14 seconds. But, in spite of its absurdity, we're going to try. For that record is held in Los Angeles and what Los Angeles can do San Francisco can do better. At least that's the way our college boys and our football teams figure. They've done...