Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mean," he continued, "this absurd fashion of dismissing anybody you don't like with the words, 'Oh, he's a non-nordic.' During the war people became accustomed to the conscription of thought, and to intolerance of free discussion. That intolerance has continued through the years of peace following...
While it is absurd to expect the university to continue to operate the dining hall at a loss of $25,000 a year, undergraduates are not yet ready to accept its closing as ending for all time the possibility of having a common university dining room. Because Memorial Hall has failed does not prove the impossibility of another project better adapted to the needs of the students...
...York World (in an editorial)-"Mr. Belasco has tried hard to make himself rich. He has made himself absurd and contemptible...
...Lighthouse by the Sea. Just as Life has run dog pictures for years successfully, often with somewhat irrelevant humor, so dog pictures on the screen will prosper no matter how pertinent the application. This present sample has a superbly absurd story about the blind ancient who keeps the light, his lovely daughter, her marcelled boy friend. Smugglers and kidnapping. Police Dog Rin-Tin-Tin does most of the rescuing, lights the beacon on the fatal night. For most people he is an all-sufficing hero...
...practice of this role, some of them, indeed, becoming so adept that no expert can detect them; and they take their places in the world's history as women of quality. But for a great lady to pretend to be a courtesan is at once difficult and absurd. The Baroness Von Popper found...