Word: absurdity
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...room castle at Nordkirchen, Princess Valerie-Marie of Schleswig-Holstein, great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria, ran her fingers through marcelled hair at the sight of bearded G.I.s tracking mud on her carpets. When she was confined to 14 gilded chambers, she wrung her hands and protested: "It's absurd, this tiny wing...
Actress Taylor plays a middleaged, down-at-heel former Southern belle, long ago deserted by her husband, and living with her feckless dreamer of a son (Eddie Dowling) and shy, scared, crippled daughter (Julie Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...
...third rate operetta, "Carousel" is bad enough, but as a mystic fantasy with songs it is absurd and over-sentimental...
...Francisco, Batista hit the ceiling. "Absurd!" he cried. "But you really could use the word stupid...
...censorship and report it (TIME, March 5). He just didn't hear of it until he read it in a newspaper. But if Pegler got cheated out of some agreeable notoriety, he did get something which he and many U.S. editors wanted: a slight easing up of an absurd censorship. The White House promised that henceforth, once the President is back in town, it will always be all right to say that he has been away, and where...