Word: meaningless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time to put captions under pictures... that have something to do with same...must read whole article sometimes...to get what devilish caption means...this is waste of time...I am rushed too...Comment on Foreign & Nat. Affairs... very good...reviews of plays, movies, books, etc. meaningless, hasty, unsympathetic...but...as I said...I like TIME...even if I am giddy after reading it...but then...I like... Rolly-coasters too...they have same effect. Now, caption this "Likes Roily-Coasters" and don't say I wasn't thoughtful in giving you that head...
...When Mr. Hoover dictated this meaningless epistle he was evidently as irritable and belligerent as Thrasymachus was when, because of his inability to answer questions propounded by Socrates, he ill-naturedly accused the great philosopher of having 'a stuffed nose' and of not having used his handkerchief as frequently as decency demanded. [Laughter...
...similar bricks and mortar of literature". Neither of these statements is any more worthy of serious comment than the "skillibooch . . . gmmk" of a baby-or the braying of an ass. Such noises speak for themselves-certain vibrations have issued forth from a cavity into the surrounding atmosphere causing a meaningless noise at which we must either laugh or hold our noses...
...impression conveyed by said article is one of a meaningless, evil-smelling chaos of ugly beasts, cruelly handled by ill-bred people...
National politics, except in the months of Presidential campaigns, seldom makes any dent upon Harvard undergraduate life. Even in the fall of 1924, the student's participation in the campaign consisted more in torchlight processions and belligerent and meaningless statements to the press that in cool consideration of the issues involved. One debate at the Union was the only serous event which brought any large attendance, and a number of speeches at the Liberal Club completed the educational side of the campaign...