Word: senselessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Princeton Alumni Weekly, speaking of the great majority of college students, says that they are "cheerful and happy," and that, "unlike their elders, they do not everlastingly talk about the depression." They hope that "things will go back"; but whatever happens, they are not going back to the senseless way in which many of them lived in prosperous days. It cannot be doubted that this is to be a wholesome period for the colleges and universities, when the higher purposes of education will have an opportunity to become dominant in the lives of the students. The lavish, rockless spender...
Every game has its own ethics. In baseball, it is permissible to rattle a pitcher by making a noise; but a golfer who shouts when his opponent is putting is a boorish cheat. In football, it is ethical to render an adversary senseless by hard tackling; it would be easy but unfair to win a rubber of bridge in the same way. A question of ethics in sport was internationally discussed last week after the conclusion of the Harmsworth Cup (motor boat) races in Detroit...
...Schwartz (The Little Show, Three's A Crowd) to demonstrate how good a revue can be when done right. Mr. Kaufman has first innings, sets his colleagues a stiff pace by presenting as a prelude a mad kaleidoscope of musicomedy cliches. There is an insanely pointless blackout, a senseless, sugary melody sung by ingenue and juvenile, a ludicrous torch song. A gesticulating chorus stamps out shouting...
...Willard Hotel's natural eagerness to shelter a Vice President and took a suite there at satisfactory terms. "Any other course for me," he later wrote, "would have been cut short by the barnyard philosophy of my father, who would have contemptuously referred to such action as the senseless imitation of a fowl which was attempting to light higher than it could roost." Mr. Coolidge urged that something be done to house future Vice Presidents permanently...
Government Solidarity. No less confident and popular in its territory seemed the government at Rio. Vandyke-bearded President Washington Luis who will be 60 next week, denounced the revolutionaries as senseless bloodspillers, calmed local misgivings as to the food supply by stating that Rio has in her cupboard enough to eat until the middle of November...