Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...
...York Times to issue a categorical and sharp denial of these absurd and irresponsible stories. . . . I not only authorize, I implore you to protest energetically in my name against the ridiculous distortions of my scientific work by popular journalism, which represent me as an inventor of a specific against idiocy."-Dr. Eugen Steinach, to the New York Times Vienna correspondent last week...
...undergraduates are practically unanimous in the opinion that President Angell's views are absurd!"--"Harvard, Radcliffe, and Wellesley had plenty to say on the subject of college week ends, and most of it was neither complimentary or kind to President James Rowland Angell...
...barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make men absurd." Russell ("Lena") Blackburne, manager of the Chicago "White Sox" (American League) baseball team, reached for a telephone after arguing unsuccessfully in a Philadelphia hotel with his husky, young, inebriated first baseman, Art Shires. Infuriated, Baseman Shires wrecked the room, blacked Blackburne's eye,- also pummelled Lou Barbour, the club...
...sciences are more ideal than the objects of the churches; their practices are more Christian. When in the fullness of time there is a family of the nations, when each will give according to its ability and receive according to its needs, when war among them will be as absurd as it would now be for members of this congress to begin mur dering one another,? this will be due in no small measure to co-operation among scientific men of all nations in their com mon work...