Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resume of the most dire forecasts and the brightest predictions for the future. It shows the striking power of imagination absent from such night-mares as "The Bulpington of Blup," and the ideas presented in it are worthy of more than dinner-table consideration. It is absurd to take some portions of it seriously as it is foolish to take others lightly. To appraise it absolutely is impossible till the future reveals its secrets; it is an interesting book, worthy of the spare moments of any intelligent person...
...afraid of the big, bad wolf?" The absurd, sprightly little song is whistled on thousands of U. S. street corners this autumn, one of the leading catch tunes of 1933. And the two little pigs have had their song published, the first of the Disney creatures to accomplish so much. They have established a market for future Disney tunes with a contract, signed last week, whereby Irving Berlin's publishing house will have the sheet-music rights over Mickey Mouse and the Silly Symphonies...
...explanation of this paradox is that Bostonians are partisan to an absurd degree. This explains their insanity re the Braves and Red Sox. It also explains their disdain of New York Theatre critics. No play, or movie either, ever drew full houses for more than two or three nights on an outside reputation alone. Boston is polite but demands to be shown. Producers invariably face the problem of proving the merit of their production all over again. Boston audiences are discriminating; they have their favorites. Most of all, however, they like what they like...
...Soviet Union. Suddenly he and the entire corps of five Soviet Railway Vice-Commissars were dismissed. Dictator Stalin's closest working henchman, Commissar of Railways Andrey Andreyev, flayed the ousted five for "poor organization throughout, excessive bureaucracy at the top and bad discipline below, with an absurd amount of red tape and scribbling everywhere...
...being useless in the woods, that is absurd! We've been here about six weeks and have planted a good many million trees, building trails, camp sites, permanent quarters, graveled roads, etc. If G. F. B. doubts the above statements he may write to Mr. J. M. Walley, Forest Supervisor, Chippewa Forest, Cass Lake, Minn. In other words, know what you're talking about before you say anything...