Word: absurdly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...original. Earlier drafts, which bluntly declared the court decision null and void (after the style of Calhoun's nullificationist South Carolina in 1832), were abandoned when it became apparent that they would probably not pass the general assembly. Many assemblymen feel that outright nullification would be absurd and futile; other Virginians fear that it might interfere with the Gray Plan (TIME...
With an annoying persistency, the subject of parictal rules each year rises from the morass of College regulations like an evil genie to bedevil Housemasters and students alike. Rules, like babies constantly need changing--or so some people think. Yet, despite the absurd quibbles about giving an hour here and taking one there, one suggestion stands out among the many as sociological rather than mathematical...
...This absurd and nonsensical statement has no basis in fact whatever, and I am morally confident that Gavin Scott has never done any empirical, field investigation of it. As a former parson in the Church of England, I can testify that I have seen many beauties of an optimum standard, sired by C. of E. Clergymen. As a matter of fact, I have one of my own and as a "lovely" I'd stack her up against any Ealing Studio bombshell.... Joseph Fletcher, Robert Treat Paine Professor of Social Ethics, Episcopal Theological School...
...film, the script-writer can hardly be blamed. The affair began in 1894, when some secret French defense plans leaked into German hands. The commanders of the French army picked Captain Alfred Dreyfus, the only Jew on the General Staff, to take the blame, and after and absurd court-martial sent him to Devil's Island. Eventually, of course, the novelist Emile Zola came to his aid, with the result that the Captain finally received his freedom and the award of a Legion of Honor for all his pains...
...bullfighter, her father? (He denied it.) Was she born in Turkey? India? Her real name was Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, and she came from Limerick. At all events, she liked to wear black, was on the stage, had tiny feet and enormous eyes. Her whole life was as absurd as a Verdi opera plot adapted for the wide screen...