Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense of conditions in their Pacific paradise they pointed out that: 1) crime was no rarity on the mainland; 2) the island of Oahu, on which Honolulu is situated, is not the largest in the archipelago while on Maui and Hawaii, all was serenely peaceful; 3) it was absurd to say that Hawaii had a "race problem," when only a tiny fraction of the mixed population was making trouble. The Hawaii Tourist Bureau cabled that the Kahahawai incident had been played up in a manner "terribly cruel to this self-respecting community and wholly unfair to many races living harmoniously...
...statement issued by the University in regard to the offer of heat and light to the Rindge Technical High School is very appropriate at this time. It ought to set at rest the absurd and malicious rumors in connection with Mayor Russell's request and the response made to it by University authorities. The fact that the whole project was immediately dropped by both parties when its illegality was discovered puts an end to the threatened investigation by the legislature, but was insufficient to discredit the reports circulated...
...engagement of his daughter Beatriz to her cousin Prince Alvaro d'Orléans (TIME, Nov. 16), he publicly announced that it was because she was a carrier of the dreaded disease. Not so proud was eccentric Infanta Eulalia, Prince Alvaro's grandmother. "Ridiculous!" she snapped. "Absurd! King Alfonso is not opposed. . . . We simply have been unable to make plans because none of us has any money. But I am going to sell my jewels. I've got to get money. Then, I hope, this marriage can take place...
Today Lewis Carrol would be 100 years old if he were now living. When he was a much younger man he took a little girl out in a row boat and told her all manner of absurd things which pleased the little girl tremendously, for no one had ever done such a thing before. She became so interested that her older friend wrote out all these stories for her, stories about white queens, and mad hatters and two odd little chumps called Tweedledee and Tweedledum who were in continual fisticuffs over a rattle. People grew suddenly incredibly tall or shrunk...
...small boy would resent it if he were told that his little yellow dog was no dog at all just because its ears were too short, its tail too long, its bark absurd. In Manhattan last week the same sort of loyalty seized May Singhi Breen who for eight years has earned her living thrumming a ukulele for the radio,* improvising ukulele accompaniments for sheet music...