Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that event the bureaucracies of Boston and Cambridge swoop down upon the newsstands and with a grand gesture of patriotic and ethical zeal, carry off every available copy of the Lampoon, as if it were a carrier of pestilence and destruction. Nothing could be more ludicrous, more utterly absurd if it were not so crass and insolent a demonstration of petty tyranny...
...think it is absurd to suppress caricatures of well known pictures...
...Patten Inc. submitted to Mr. Woolley a contract for advertising. Said he: "I never sign contracts, but I agree to the terms." Van Patten Inc. claims that the contract, verbally agreed to, called for $60,000. Counsel for the Democrats claim that is absurd, as Mr. Woolley's total appropriation for all publicity was only...
...Absurd," said the genial John W. Davis. "I don't know what Mr. Van Patten is talking about," said the genial James W. Gerard. "If he [Van Patten] can, by a law suit, disclose the reasons why Davis and Bryan were not elected, it will be very interesting indeed and helpful in future campaigns," said Jesse H. Jones of Texas...
...housewives at their tubs and business men at their shaving. Before the echoes of the blatant dirge had been quite relegated to that mortuary of all songs - the monkey-organ - certain tenors were beginning to thud their chests in the press. To compare many with Caruso is, of course, absurd. But there are, in Manhattan, two Italian gentlemen striving for the place of "leading tenor of the Metropolitan." For several seasons, these two have vied with each other; and still some operagoers will emphatically murmur: "Giovanni Martinelli," others vulgarly shout: "Beniamino Gigli." Last week, in an advertisement for a concert...