Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most famous woman in the world, some have said, is Madame Curie, who honors the University with a visit next Monday. Partly because the world still clings to the absurd idea that any woman scientist is an extraordinary person, but chiefly because in Madame Curie it recognizes one of the foremost chemists of all time, her visit to this country has been one round of applause. We Americans have a way of exhausting our distinguished visitors with an elaborate program of events, accompanied by crowds of curious onlookers. Even the Prince of Wales, it is said, found his American tour...
...these days of high income taxes that ancient problem in cupid's mathematics of how to prove that "two can live as cheaply as one" is so absurd as it might at first seem. The Internal Revenue Department has become a sort of Beatrice Barefacts for the dissemination of advice to the matrimonially inclined. It is constantly being deluged by letters from all kinds of people, especially from worm who want to know what returns their husbands filed--a lamentable commentary one the state of marital confidence in this country. Like "tar-baby", however, the department "ain't saying' nothing...
...really a continuation of Opal Whitely despite the editorial note that "Nothing at all resembling this diary has ever appeared, and we have been assured from several sources that nothing like it will ever appear again." The original needed no exaggeration, and the most delicate perversion has emphasized the absurd flavor of the articles. The animals' names are masterpieces, and Robinson Crusoe Caruso and Hopalong Cassidy should be godfathers to many family pets...
...master or a servant of the people? To say that he is a master is an obvious denial of the very purpose of a representative government. On the other hand, to require the President to submerge his abilities as a mere servant to those who choose him is absurd. In-so-far as all his power is derived from the people must he subordinate his personal biases to public opinion, and in-so-far as popular confidence in him has been shown by the ballot is he to exercise his own judgment and initiative...
...culture in our country. Unfortunately I was brought up in a part of the land where Harvard is usually spoken of in (shall I be conservative and say) neutral terms. Therefore my mind has a vague, ghostlike, untrue conception of a creature stamped "Harvard man" I fully realize how absurd my idea is, yet an idea is an idea and when it is stamped on the brain, well, it is bound to cling more or less. I really an scared I might get a Harvard mannerism, to be definite, and that is why Cambridge is taboo land...