Word: absurdness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...resign from his vice-presidency in the National Bank of the Republic and the executive vice-presidency of the National Republic Co. due to the publicity attendant upon his wife's divorce suit. "She's always spent beyond his means and now she's ruined him," said the attorney. "Absurd," said counsel for the lady. "Now that he has $30,000 a year, he wants to throw her aside." This was a tangle too naughty to untie. Judge Sabath ordered the banker to give his wife $250 right away and said he would listen to further details later...
...newspapers of 1906 and 1907 is worth reading. The prosecution addressed 150,000 words to the jury, the defense used 250,000. Everyone rather expected Borah to win. He might have won in the end had not a man who later admitted killing Governor Steunenberg made some absurd charges against Haywood which discredited his earlier incriminations. Haywood was freed after 18 months in jail, a famous man and to all dissatisfied workmen a hero...
...these last years endeavoring to avoid unwelcome notoriety and the gushing missives of American flappers incurred because of the fact that I happen to be the only American officer in the Legion and of the false romantic reputation which the Legion has acquired in America due both to the absurd cinema productions which have attempted to picture our life and the mendacious writings of Christopher Wren...
There are those professors who, though absurd and far from wise, are well loved by the students to whom they lecture. There are also those professors who are respected by their peers and regarded with something more than apathy by their students. Professor Franklin Henry Giddings of Columbia belongs in both classes and in neither. Last week, in one of his Friday lectures, Professor Giddings told his listeners that he was retiring from the teaching staff of which he has been a member for 37 years; that thenceforth he would devote himself to research. At this, many...
...some extent, their anticipations were rewarded. There was Geoffrey Wareham and Janet Rodney, his fiancee, an absurd and temperamental pair, a burden though a source of merriment to the girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass...