Word: absurdity
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...have been following with interest the debate being conducted in your columns over the advisability of blowing a quarter of a million dollars in putting up another Varsity Club. Originally the notion struck me as absurd on its face, but on Thursday last an argument was produced in its favor that seems unanswerable, and I must therefore strike my colors with as good grace as possible...
Avid Durante followers won't appreciate "The Great Rupert." The plot, a rather juvenile and absurd one, certainly confines Durante's talents, and the man himself appears less exuberant than in some of his earlier pictures...
...Labor's Lord Strabolgi: "Whether the King's government can be sustained or not depends upon whether a few gentlemen have temperatures which are up or down, or are perhaps in hospital, and can come and vote, if at all, only in bath chairs. That is an absurd situation...
...absurd and dangerous mockery of Communist Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the head of France's Atomic Research Commission (TIME, April 17) came to an end last week. Premier Georges Bidault announced, "with regret," the dismissal of the Red nuclear physicist. "Whatever the qualifications of this scientist," said the Premier, "his public statements and his unreserved acceptance of the [pro-Russian] resolutions . . . of the Communist Party make it impossible to maintain him in his functions of High Commissioner...
...only your rate of tariffs which operates to discourage other countries' exports to you, but your complicated custom laws and your absurd methods of customs appraisal . . . The offhand way in which Arthur Motley brushed off this issue suggests that he does not realize that this is really the crux of the problem of two-way trade between Britain and the U.S. I believe that lecturing so complacently to the British under these circumstances is the sort of thing that can give your well-intentioned countrymen a reputation for brashness...