Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Mrs. McCormick is broke is absurd," protested a plumpish, rosy-cheeked' little man who is seen with Mrs. McCormick almost every day. "When one is broke one cannot meet one's obligations. Mrs. McCormick can meet hers...
...this scaling down was done by the Lausanne Conference. The process began soon after the late Baron Cunliffe, onetime Governor of the Bank of England (1913-18), officially informed Prime Minister David Lloyd George in 1919 that Germany could pay 116 billion dollars. This was a statement so obviously absurd that a year later the Boulogne Conference tentatively set 64 billions as what is usually considered the "original sum" of Germany's debt in Reparations...
...exploded" to Correspondent Dorothy Thompson (now Mrs. Sinclair Lewis) it was denied not only that he had spoken as quoted but that he had ever seen her in his life. Last week the Italian Foreign Office called II Duce's statements as quoted by the Daily Express "so obviously absurd as to be unworthy of an official denial...
...title suggests, Mr. Scarborough has a thesis. He says that despite the fact that the Englishman does things by absurd roundabout methods, following antiquated ideas, the results are on the whole satisfactory and if they are not, the Britisher can, by his famous process of self-hypnosis, make himself believe that they are. This system of blundering about in a world of obsolete laws, political contradictions, and mid-Victorian conceptions of industry and trade is a tragic setting for a book, and even the numerous amusing anecdotes and descriptions of the Vagaries of the British mental process cannot make...
...many anti-Hoover votes had been cast by Republicans who well knew they were throwing their ballots away on a vain candidate. President Hoover had won but he had not - as Cartoonist Edmund Waller Gale of the Los Angeles Times elaborately suggested {see cut) - vacuum-cleaned his absurd opponent as thoroughly as his Maryland friends had expected. The France nuisance value still remained and Maryland looked like a doubtful State...