Word: absurdity
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Lord Frank Gannett, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia William Bullitt, Columnist Walter Winchell. For Winchell, Vishinsky reserved his choicest invective: "The new American Baron Munchausen, famous . . . for his utterly absurd lies...
...early as 1943, with the war's end still two years off, the feeling of being put upon by the world began creeping into the General Staff's hush-hush memoranda, many of which Shirer quotes practically in full. It reaches a climax in Hitler's absurd will, and is still, says Shirer, an article of faith today. Though expressed repeatedly and in a dozen ways, it adds up to one bleat: we was robbed...
...controls normal to legitimate business." To newsmen, Toulmin described Tucker as "a tall, dark, delightful, but inexperienced boy." He added that the Tucker 48 does not actually run, it just goes "chug-chug." Furthermore, "I don't know if it can back up." To all this Tucker snapped: "Absurd. I am surprised at the man." He explained that he had asked Toulmin to resign "to make way for a prominent man now active in the automobile industry...
...Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind of sense and this makes little or none. Readers will admire Ruark's choice of target but deplore...
Star-Times Publisher Elzey Roberts countered with a defiant open letter to officious, slowfooted Dickmann. It was absurd, Roberts said, to make it "legal to listen to such news [by radio] and illegal to read it" in a paper. In Washington, Dickmann's fellow St. Louisan and political sponsor, Postmaster General Robert Hannegan, agreed with Publisher Roberts, and ruled that the law didn't literally mean what it said. Henceforth "incidental reporting of a lottery" will not bar a paper from the mails...