Word: absurdity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Absurd," "Silly," "Not for Sale," retorted Mexican officials to the Ashurst proposal. Mexico is forbidden by its present Constitution to cede any of its domain to a foreign power...
...criminal? were fashioned to provide a lesson. As a cinema, the realism of scenes in the prison itself?the cells, yard, jute-mill, dungeons ?pours life into the theatrical skeleton. Even the romance between Robert Graham and the warden's daughter (Constance Cummings) is not as absurd as it might have been and at no time does The Criminal Code rely for its effect on vaudeville gag-lines, as The Big House did. Walter Huston plays the warden humanly and sensibly, although at times he has trouble making the dialog sound real. Best minor part: DeWitt Jennings...
...have general consideration"). But no enthusiasm: for Dr. Butler's scheme had Athletic Director Fielding Harris Yost of University of Michigan ("No possible value"); Coach Glenn Scobey ("Pop") Warner of Stanford ("You hear a lot of funny things sug-gested"); Major John L. Griffith. Big Ten athletic commissioner ("Absurd...
...bachelor's degree." [It is scandalous] "that the prestige of the University of Chicago should be used to bamboozle well-meaning but untrained persons with the notion that they can thus receive a high school or a college education." To Dr. Flexner's attack came retorts: "Absurd!" Said Dr. James Chidester Egbert, director of the School
...absurd to think that the club might rule out the Robeson figure on racial lines. Do you know of any other club that employs all Negro waiters and servants...