Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eerily by night. Servants at H. R. H.'s bachelor quarters in York House, London, could not quite shake off uneasy qualms aroused by the dog's palpable terror and grief. Suppose, just suppose the little bitch knew, with feminine intuition, that her master would never return. Absurd-yet Master Wales had set out, last week, to journey a long way away-to South & East Africa...
...took care to add that he had learned "from well-advised Republicans" that the G. O. P. campaign fund, now announced as between three and four millions, would reach six or seven or even eight millions. G. O. P. Chairman Work quickly retorted that Mr. Raskob was being "absurd...
...readers of the New York World know well, the cartoons by Will B. Johnstone are always absurd, usually funny. His method is to take a news item, carry it pictorially to a ludicrous conclusion. A fortnight ago, he came upon "Chicago offers prize for poster boosting its World's Fair in 1933," as his news item. His cartoon in the form of a poster, showed a dog-faced gunman leaning on a World's Fair building which was labeled "100% American-Thompson Hall."* The smoke of the gunman's gun spelled: CHICAGO WELCOMES YOU! Other gangsters, disguised...
When he exhibited first at the English Art Club, at about the same time as Sir William Orpen, critics snarled at him for selecting "ugly subjects." Disregarding the absurd grounds for their quarrel, the critics were probably wrong. Painter John was not disturbed at their objections. He became a teacher of art at the Liverpool University School of Art from which he soon disappeared to live among gypsies while painting pictures of them...
...world. It is while he is making scurrilous advances to a choir singer that Elmer Gantry, casting away a cigaret causes this gaudy temple to burst into flames-a conflagration reproduced upon the stage with tissue paper and magic lanterns in a manner once realistic but now absurd...