Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chambers of Commerce had backed their rational executives' program 90% strong. The Chamber was anxious for its tax cut, said President Pierson, even if, combined with big appropriations, it resulted in a deficit. President Coolidge's voice rose and rang bitterly as he called this talk "absurd," especially coming from Business men who apparently were unaware that budget law obliges the Treasury to eschew deficits...
...Sheik. The dreary monotony of male sheiks who gallop along the hot snows of the desert is made agreeably absurd by a reversal of formula. The beautiful Zaida (Bebe Daniels) kidnaps one Captain Colton (Richard Arlen). This, after a long interval of comic complications, leads to a war with the native Arabians who are repulsed by an adroit insertion of machina in machina. On the sandy screen of white desert dunes, Zaida causes a newsreel, showing a vast army on the march, to be projected. Not used to this kind of mirage, the Arabs surrender rapidly just before the newsreel...
There is only one detail upon which Oxford still lacks reassurance. Disillusioning though it be, Oxford must find out before it is too late who wrote the scenario. The idea of Cambridge stooping to such subterfuge is almost absurd; still, Caesar had his Brutus, Harvard its Donald Ogden Stewart, and Oxford may profit by their example...
...trial began with evidence from Salvatore Ferrarello, notorious chief. He denied that he was ever a member of the Andaloro-Ferrarello gang. "That is absurd," said he. "I have always been their enemy." He denied, as was to be expected, all the crimes with which he was accused. Extortion in particular he condemned as a "frivolous" act. "I would be ashamed to commit it!" said he. "Although I am the nephew of Gaetano Ferrarello, [another notorious bandit chief who killed himself in prison rather than face trial], I am proud to proclaim that I am an honest...
...George Hassell, who plays him to the last shake of his ponderous belly. You have the feeling that Thompson's lowly feathers are plucked from the same bird that gave Cyrano his white plume and that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan is an authority on husbands & wives. In his newest farce, he sets down that...