Word: absurdness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...these little points Editor Renaud was sharp in retort. "It's absurd to think I have any religious prejudice. I have none. I was bred a Unitarian, but belong to no church. As for the Germans, yes, during the war I was against Germany. I was a loyal American. But since then I've held no animus. And I did vote for Hoover. But if Mr. Pulitzer were hiring a managing editor on account of his vote, I expect he wouldn't have hired...
...plays-"their brevity flatters my inability to sustain a long flight, and the inertia that barely permits me to write at all. And finally when I became a teacher, here was the length that could be compassed after the lights of the House were out and the sheaf of absurd French exercises indignantly marked with red crayon...
Naturally enough, Judge Ewing's unconventional behavior on the bench not only created one of the biggest stories of the week but aroused fierce debate. Absurd though it may be to contemplate enforcement of birth control, most observers credited the Cleveland judge with having raised, sharply, an issue of paramount importance...
...well as it should be or as it has been between England and America. But as one who has been in charge of the British Admiralty's policy and a member of the Cabinet, it seems to me that there is much that is unreal, even absurd, in this naval controversy...
...same time; usually he directs his team from the field bench. Judge Fuchs is not a professional, not even an able, baseball player. Even if he were, he is too good-natured and kindly to subdue curt umpires and angry, ignorant players. For him to be a manager was absurd and astonishing; he admitted that he would hire Johnny Evers, once a famed player, to be his assistant manager...