Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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QUITE contrary to the sweeping claim on the jacket of this book, Mr. Edwin C. Hill is not the inaugurator of a "new profession, that of the journalist historian". To the readers of "Our Times", of "Only Yesterday", of "Interpretations" any such assertion appears stupidly absurd. Before the appearance of "The American Scene" Mr. Hill was merely one of a number of pleasant voices and nimble wits which took advantage of the fact that there is small room for adjectives in the hasty columns of a metropolitan newspaper, that John Citizen is content to allow others to do his reading...
...guilty, obstinate and continued." Newshawks shouted news of the suit up to Mr. Walker's hotel window in Cannes, France, at dawn while he was applying hot irons to his lumbago pains after a night club party. He shrilled down, "I have been fantastically misunderstood. The action is absurd. Shut up!" and slammed the window. In the next few days he said he would contest, would not, left the decision to his lawyer, was grateful for Mrs. Walker's tactful charge of desertion, not adultery. Worried about cash, Mr. Walker was lazily writing magazine articles with Writer Frank...
...capital: 1) raffendes or "grasping capital" hoarded in banks, from which interest or dividends is received by such rascals as Jews; and 2) schaffendes or "creative capital" which is the life blood of German enterprise and therefore good, even though paying interest or dividends. Thanks to this masterly though absurd "distinction," a Hitlerite can preach expropriation of capital to factory hands, then walk into the directors' room and promise protection of capital, remaining all the while "consistent." "National Socialism." the name of the Hitler Party, is another piece of intentional confusion, useful in catching both Nationalist and Socialist votes...
...American people for dictatorship, a demand which has been based on the clear conviction that Congress has already failed. Congressional procedure is far too clumsy; its knowledge, especially of industrial and commercial relations, is far too inadequate. As a result, the business life of America is either hedged with absurd restrictions, or permitted entire freedom of action where central supervision is necessary...
...most universal dispute among boys at bearding school--that of the superiority of their home city. Of course there is no criterion for a city. It might be said, however, that Boston is proud of its still observed customs of curtseying patronesses, strictly chaperoned sub-debs, of its absurd blue laws (or else why does it not change them?), and the like. Fortunately, Chicago is young. It is systematically planned. Unbound by braking customs, it is not afraid to progress. Indeed, it has advanced in great strides. Walter J. Watson...