Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lesser Slim Figure Bath: "Every physician knows . . . that this absurd mixture of cornstarch, borax, baking soda, etc. can have not the slightest effect in the reduction of weight...
...prohibition on college girls acting in one of the great tragedies; yet Vassar gives Greek plays regularly. A still closer parallel can be found in "Mourning Becomes Electra," with the extremely important distinction that while this is handled realistically, Johnston's play is symbolic. Thus it would be more absurd for Harvard Dramatic Club advisers to ban the latter than O'Neill's play...
Intrinsically, Gambling Lady is as absurd as it sounds but the honesty of Barbara Stanwyck's performance is as successful as that of the heroine's card playing. Good shot: Lady Lee's amazement when her husband requests her to give back to Sheila Aiken the jewels she has won at vingt...
Perhaps this was written with tongue in cheek, but it is open to a more serious interpretation as a statement of the author's real opinion. As such it is a prize example of that absurd undergraduate pomposity which has reduced so-called Undergraduate Opinion to a negligible factor outside the college world. Does Mr. Wade realize that he is merely making a fool of himself--that even an experienced literary critic of mature age and opinions could not make such a statement with impunity...
...German Government's great regret, its relations with the present Austrian Government are not satisfactory. The fault is not ours. The assertion that Germany plans to violate Austria is absurd and incapable of proof...