Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absurd," snorted Leader Lewis in an amazing New Year's Eve broadcast in which he defied virtually the whole of U. S. Big Business, "for such a corporation to pretend that its policies are settled locally. Every one knows that decisions as to wages, hours and other conditions of employment are made at a central point for all the plants controlled by General Motors...
...attacks on the leadership of John Hamilton, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, by Hamilton Fish, have been for the most part unfair. Mr. Fish has made several abortive attempts to appear the liberal leader of the Republican party, but considering his past record these grandstand plays are absurd. The blame for the Republican defeat cannot be placed on any one man; especially not on Mr. Hamilton. Up to date, no one in the party has shown the vigor, and hard hitting speaking ability of the present chairman, and the Republicans would be taking an unwise step if they accept...
...Wives Never Know" is the most pleasantly absurd comedy that the Ruggles-Boland combination has yet produced. In it, Mr. Ruggles is determined to be as wicked as possible so as to satisfy his wife, who has made up her mind that she is losing something from life. This all sounds a trifle complicated, and Miss Boland gets "that way" after listening to Adolph Menjou, the author of "Marriage, the Living Death". All in all the hill is worthy of recommendation for all who find Cambridge a grim place these days...
...Wight's Cape Cod portraits, runs to 559 well-filled pages. But for readers these graces will not compensate for the lack of any human rattle and recklessness in hard-pressed Aaron Kane. Heroes and heroines of historical romance may be as incredible as Anthony Adverse or as absurd as Scarlett O'Hara, but they make good reading so long as they move fast, if it be only from one improbability to the next. A true romantic hero in all respects but this, Aaron Kane suffers from a lack of buoyancy, lands in one romantic situation after another...
...viewpoint was expressed by Professor Murdock of Leverett House who, in a talk on October fifth, admitted that rule would prove unworkable. He showed the casual attitude with which the Masters had approached the problem when he said that the present rule had been accepted "because it seems less absurd than any other rule that has been suggested...