Word: absurd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoping that you will rectify this absurd and ridiculous mistake, we remain...
...Though he was at the Peace Conference only toward the end, for the discussion of Soviet Russia, his opinion of the whole fiasco is nonetheless violent. He spits fire upon Wilson Biographer Ray Stannard Baker's smugness: "Mr. Baker detracts from the vindication of his hero by the absurd scenario picture which he has chosen to paint. Wilson's share in the Peace Conference, his hopes, his mistakes, his achievements, his compromises and his disasters are worthy of something better than the Hollywood setting with which we are provided. The President is represented as a stainless Sir Galahad...
...Andrew W. Mellon is disqualified as Secretary of the Treasury by reason of the law which forbids that officer to engage in business or commerce, etc., or the law which forbids Internal Revenue officers engaging in the tobacco or liquor business. The first part of this resolution was perfunctorily absurd* and would not have been urged if only Secretary Davis had been involved. The second part was designed simply to embarrass Mr. Mellon, though its proponents knew the odds were all against their ousting him. The "liquor business" charge has so often been brought against Mr. Mellon and so often...
...February 10. Newman and Carlyle. The former's was a feminine nature, which first decides and then finds reasons for hav-ing decided. He was an enthusiast with the absurd reputation of a logician and reasoner. Carlyle was a poet with the reputation of a philosopher. Neither was truly a thinker...
...overt act could be established. It was all picayune, absurd. The trio was released, though not without Secret Service men in train...