Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that guy is after is headlines. He doesn't contribute a dime but he's always yapping. Some people just can't stand to see others making a living wage." Three days later NRAdministrator Johnson leaped into the controversy to declare: "It's perfectly absurd for CWA to pay higher wages than private industry can afford to pay under codes. Government money distributed that way is practically a dole. Industry cannot give doles. Hopkins' talk about decent subsistence wages is just a lot of adjectives to me." Administrator Hopkins shrugged his shoulders, went...
...liquor dealers were taking undue advantage of the drinking public was Dr. James M. Doran. For 26 years Dr. Doran has been on the Government payroll, since 1930 as Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. As chairman of the Distillers Code Authority he said last week: "A mere boom. It is absurd for anyone to predict the price of liquor for the next few days...
Truth was that Mrs. Kreisler wanted to spend Christmas in their Berlin home, that Kreisler wanted to see about the London production of his operetta Sissy before he finished his U. S. tour. What made the know-it-alls' talk all the more absurd was a statement by several New York concert managers to the effect that their business is now on a sounder basis than it has been for two years...
...prowess that when the late William Collins Whitney in 1900 determined to beat his Wall Street rival, the late James R. Keene, in the Futurity at Sheepshead Bay at any cost, he sent to England for Tod Sloan. It cost him the traveling expenses of the jockey and his absurd retinue, plus a reputed fee of $25,000. Astride Financier Whitney's Ballyhoo Bey, Sloan won a masterful race, quickly returned to his glories abroad. His downfall came when the English Jockey Club revoked his license on charges that he had bet on his own races. U. S. racing...
...prices of the liquor offered yesterday and predicted for the future were, to put it plainly, absurd. Gin, the equal of which anyone can make for fifty cents a quart, was on the market at about two dollars; whiskey, particularly the better variety, was selling at a prohibitive price, and the cost of imported wines assumed astronomical proportions. These unfortunate circumstances have been laid off variously to taxes, protection of home industries, and to what retailers vaguely call "high wholesale charges." The fairly evident fact that the manufacturers are putting on the screws in the face of a great demand...