Word: ridiculouse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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She had just moved into a new home on the ocean, after months by herself in a cottage in a canyon. The canyon had been bad. "I was alone," she explained. "I was terrified. But I just pretended I wasn't there. ..." The white-haired Queen Dowager of the...
Last week Kansas Republicans admitted that they could no longer ignore a ridiculous situation. They had been given a hotfoot by small, bald, old-maidish Harry Hines Woodring, ex-governor (1931-33), ex-Secretary of War (1936-40), who last February lambasted Kansas prohibition as a "farce," called enforcement officers...
Men Are Better. But against topflight men tennists, Pauline, like all women players, is far behind. The 700-year-old French game of tennis, traditionally as much a lady's as a man's game, was introduced to the U.S. in 1874 by a woman, Mary E. Outerbridge...
The first great leader of modern Zionism (the name given the Return) was Theodor Herzl, who had been a foppish Viennese journalist until the Dreyfus case in France convinced him that Jews could never hope to be assimilated by other peoples. Herzl, who once claimed to sum up life in...
"[It] would be unfair [to suggest] that all censorship is harmful or silly. It isn't. . . . Broadcasters quite understandably don't like to offend individuals, minority groups, religious orders, advertisers or members of other nationalities. . . . The intentions are good but the administration is ridiculous. . . . For example: