Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That it would be absurd to attempt in present circumstances to stabilize the dollar against foreign exchange...
...entirely blame Curry. When he was Corporation Counsel under Mayor Hylan, O'Brien showed considerable intelligence and ability. Then O'Brien disappeared for ten years in the Surrogate's Court. When, after he was nominated to the Mayoralty, John O'Brien began making the most absurd verbal blunders, putting his foot into his magniloquent mouth every time he opened it, his astonished acquaintances came to the conclusion that he had quietly entered his dotage. They attributed his condition to one of two things: worry over losing his and his wife's fortune (as has many...
...courtesy themselves and no "screeching" of "assassins" was heard by them. Someone had punched the alarm bell by mistake thinking it was an electric light button-and of course the police on guard were at once excited and rushed about some. But your account of it all is absurd...
...purred Dr. Goebbels, "why you should have the slightest difficulty in adjusting the trend of what you write to the interests of the State. It is possible that the Government may sometimes be mistaken-as to individual measures-but it is absurd to suggest that anything superior to the Government might take its place. What is the use therefore of editorial skepticism? It only makes people uneasy...
...case; the older ones, which will gravitate to the lots, are now floating about alleys like shiny and disembodied ghosts, and bring revenue to no one but the benignant baboons of the local constabulary. The objection that such an innovation would represent a harmful access of unwonted luxury is absurd: the member of Adams House, who finds an exotic and almost tropical luxuriation of unmentionable facilities off the gold room, to the left of his dining hall, has good reason to wonder why the University declines to make more practical and less expensive arrangements for the convenience of its wards...